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THE 


MEDEA OF EURIPIDES, 


WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION, 


BY 


FRFEDERIC D. ALLEN, Pn. D., 


PROFESSOR IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 





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PREFACE. 





Or the conjectural emendations in the text of the Medea 
which have been, especially during the last few decades, 
proposed in great numbers, such and such only have been 
adopted in the present edition as seemed to me either quite 
certain or in the highest degree probable. For the rest the 
best manuscripts have been closely followed in the main. 
Anything like an incisive treatment of the text is, in my 
opinion, out of place in editions intended for learners. Only 
in a few hopelessly garbled passages the need of furnishing 
a readable text in decent metrical form has led me to admit 
bolder and more uncertain alterations. Here due warning 
is given the reader in the notes. 

In interpretation I have striven for correctness rather 
than for originality, and have of course derived much from 
others. Brevity had to be studied, but I have not know- 
ingly slurred over any real difficulty. 

The following editions have been used: Porson’s; Elms- 
ley’s (German reprint with Hermann’s notes); Kirchhoft’s 
editions of 1855 and 1867; Dindorf’s (Oxford edition 
1859, and Poetae Scenici 1868) ; Nauck’s 3d edition, 1871, 


- PREFACE. 


also his Huripidecische Studien; Schoene’s Medea, 1853; 
Pilugk and Klotz’s 3d edition, 1867; Witschel’s, 1858; 
Paley’s 2d edition, 1872; Weil’s, 1868; Hogan’s Medea, 
1873; Wecklein’s Medea, 1874. This last-named excel- 
lent work has been of especial use. 

Corrections or suggestions from any quarter will be grate- 
fully received. 

FF. Didi 
CINCINNATI, September, 1876. 


EINTRODUCTION. 





I. EURIPIDES. 


$1. Life. — What we know of Euripides’ personal history, 
excluding what is plainly fabulous, is substantially this. He 
lived from 480, or a little earher, to 406 B.c. The current 
belief was that he was born in Salamis on the day of the sea- 
fight, but this has the air of an invention. His father’s name was 
Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides; his mother’s, Clito, The latter at 
least was of humble origin. Euripides was of a studious and 
speculative turn, an ardent disciple of the philosophers and soph- 
ists of his day, Anaxagoras, Prodicus, Socrates, and others. His 
first play he exhibited at the age of twenty-five ; thirteen years 
later he gained for the first time the first prize. Ofa gloomy 
temperament, never personally popular with his countrymen, and 
not successful in his profession at first (he won only five dra- 
matic victories), he seems to have suffered from a morbid sensi- 
tiveness, a consciousness of being misunderstood, a feeling some- 
times reflected in his works. He lived aloof from the world, in 
the midst of his large collection of books. There was some 
trouble in his domestic relations; with neither his first nor his 
second wife did he lve happily. His last years were spent 
abroad, first in Magnesia, then at the court of Archelaus, the 
Macedonian king, at Pella, where he died and was buried, a 
cenotaph being erected at Athens. He left three sons, the 
youngest of whom followed his father’s profession. The popu- 
larity of his plays at the close of his life and throughout later 
antiquity was extraordinary. 


2 INTRODUCTION. 


§ 2. Works. — Of Euripides’ 75 (according to others 92) 
plays, there have come down to us 19, or excluding the ‘Pjcos, 
which is almost universally thought to be spurious, 18. These 
are: “AAKyotis, “Avopopayyn, Baxyat, “ExaByn, “EAévn, “HA€xtpa, 
“Hpakdcidar, “Hpaxdns pavopevos, ‘Ikerides, ‘IrmoAutos, ‘“Idiyévera 
my ev AvAL, “Ipvyeveca 7 ev Tar'pors, “Iwv, Kixrwy (a satyric 
drama), Mydeaa, “Opéeorns, Tpwades, Potviccat. The dates of the 
following six are known with certainty : Alcestis, 438; Medea, 
431; Hippolytus, 428; Troades, 415; Helena, 412; Orestes, 40s. 
A few others can be approximately placed. The Bacchae and 
Iphigenia in Aulis were produced after the poet’s death. 

§ 3. Spirit and Tendency. 
Sophocles, Euripides belongs in spirit to a different age. He is 





Though a contemporary of 


a representative of the new Athens of his time, of the new ideas, 
political, moral, and aesthetic, which were just coming into vogue, 
supplanting the sterner and simpler notions of the old-fashioned 
citizens. It is the Athens of Demosthenes and Praxiteles, rather 
than that of Pericles and Phidias, for which Euripides wrote. 
Rhetorie and philosophical speculation had much to do with this 
change. Euripides shares the artificial tastes and the sceptical 
spirit of the new school. 

To give vivid pictures of human passion is Euripides’ chief 
aim, and in this his streneth lies. He is in no sympathy with 
the mythical spirit ; the myths he uses only as the vehicle of his 
own conceptions. The notion of an all-controlling Fate and of a 
hereditary family curse are much less prominent than with Aes- 
chylus and Sophocles, There is less lofty ideality in his coneep- 
tions ; his characters are more like those of every-day life, their 
passions less removed from common experience. This accords in 
general with modern taste ; indeed, it has often been observed 
that Euripides stands nearer to the modern dramatists than do 
his predecessors. He excites often a livelier sympathy ; hence 
Aristotle calls him “the most tragie of the poets.” But Eurip- 
ides has sometimes gone too far in this direction, and introduced 
characters too commonplace and incidents altogether trivial. 


INTRODUCTION. 3 


§ 4. Style. — Euripides is smooth and dexterous in the use 
of language ; free from the turgidity of Aeschylus, but not free 
from rhetorical artifice. Even smaller verbal quibbles, paradoxi- 
cal expressions, alliterations, and the like, he does not disdain. 
Characteristic of him are the long arguments between his person- 
ages on questions of right and wrong, sometimes quite irrelevant 
to the matter in hand. Almost every play has one or more of 
these. The author delights, even when one side is manifestly in 
the wrong, to display his skill in making out a specious argument. 
He is fond of philosophizing through the mouths of his char- 
acters, and the abundance of maxims (yv@mat), reflections, and 
generalizations on social and religious topics — another effect of 
the rhetorical training of that day — went far to render Eurip- 
ides attractive in later times. The histrionic art had developed 
in his day, and this influenced composition ; the actors had to 
be furnished with telling and pointed speeches and striking situ- 
ations. Scenery, too, had come to be a matter of importance, 
and some plays (Troad., Her. Fur.) must have depended largely 
on their scenic effects for success. 

§ 5. Form. — The internal economy of his plays is often de- 
fective ; his plots lack coherence and compactness. In general 
he relies on striking passages and thrilling scenes more than on 
unity and symmetry of the whole. But there is much difference 
among his plays in this respect. Two things have been especially 
blamed: 1. The so-called Geds é76 prnyaris, the express interfer- 
ence of a god at the end of the play to solve the difficulties of 
the situation. 2. His prologues, long soliloquies in which the 
situation is expounded, often baldly and awkwardly, to the hear- 
ers. Euripides was responsible for metrical and musical innova- 
tions concerning the merits of which we can no longer judge. 
The chorus is diminished in importance ; its odes are often mere 
interludes, having little to do with the dramatic situation. His 
later pieces show frequent resolutions in the iambi, and contain 
long and irregularly constructed monodies. 

§ 6. Moral Tendency. — Euripides has been unjustly at- 


4 INTRODUCTION. 


tacked (notably by Aristophanes the comedian, and in modern 
times by Schlegel) on ground of exercising a debasing influence 
on morals. But much that seemed corrupting to his conservative 
contemporaries, as Aristophanes, cannot appear so to us; and 
those sentiments which have been cited as inculcating false mo- 
rality seem mostly harmless when taken in connection with the 
situation and the personsywho utter them. They are not to be 
taken for Euripides’ own sentiments. To a few places in which 
the justice and providence of the gods are openly denied, excep- 
tion may, perhaps, be fairly taken. 

§ 7. His Misogynism was much blamed by the ancients, 
but this trait has been greatly exaggerated. Euripides brings for- 
ward in several plays women of strong passions and doing great 
mischief (Medea, Phaedra, Hecuba), but on the other hand has 
depicted noble and admirable types of womanhood (Alcestis, 
Iphigenia, Macaria). He possessed a deep insight into female 
character, and was fond of portraying it in all its phases, the 
dark as well as the light. He is particularly skilful in this, and 
his women, even the bold and unlovely ones, are thoroughly 
feminine. 

Without trying to excuse his many defects, and without pre- 
tending to rank him with Aeschylus and Sophocles, we must yet 
recognize in Euripides dramatic genius of a high order. 

§ 8. Manuscripts and Scholia. — The Euripidean man- 
uscripts were first classified by Kirchhoff in his edition of 1855, 
Those which possess any authority form two classes. Nine plays 
(Hee., Or., Phoen., Med., Hipp., Ale., Andr., Troad., Rhes.) are 
extant in Mss. of both classes, the remaining ten in those of the 
second class only 


. 
v 


These last plays were little known and read 
by the Byzantines, and have narrowly escaped perishing alto- 
cether, 

Chass 1. Uninterpolated copies (complete or partial) of a re- 
cension current in the Middle Ages, comprising the nine plays 
above mentioned. These Mss. have the highest authority. 
The principal ones are: Coder Murcianus in Venice (5 plays), 


INTRODUCTION. 5 


Cod. Vaticanus (9 plays), Cod. Havniensis (Copenhagen, 9 plays), 
Cod. Parisinus (6 plays). 

Crass 2. Copies of a different and far rarer recension which 
embraced at least 19 pieces, but contained a text of less purity, 
which had been tampered with by would-be correctors. The 
authority of these Mss. is therefore inferior, and the plays found 
only in them are accordingly difficult of criticism and cannot be 
so nearly restored. The two most important Mss. of this class 
are Cod. Palatinus at Rome (13 plays) and Cod. Florentinus 
(18 plays). 

Scholia exist only to the nine plays found in Mss. of Class 1. 
Some of them are old and valuable. They are edited by W. 
Dindorf, Oxford, 1863, in 4 vols. 

§ 9. Hditions.— I name only the most important and com- 
prehensive, omitting all of single plays :— 


R. Porson (4 plays), 1797 - 1811. 

P. Elmsley (3 plays), 1813-1821. 

G. Hermann (12 plays), 1800-1841. 

A, Matthiae, large edition, 10 vols., 1813-1837. Now antiquated. 

W., Dindorf, Oxford edition with notes, 4 vols., 18832-1840. Most 
recently in Poetae Scenici Graeci, Leipzig, 1870. 

Pflugk and Klotz (11 plays), Gotha and Leipzig, 1840-1867. Over- 
conservative. 

A. Kirchhoff, larger edition with critical notes only, 2 vols., Berlin, 
1855. This edition marks a new epoch in the text-criticism. Smaller 
edition with chief variants, 3 vols., Berlin, 1868. 

A. Nauck, Text, 2 vols., Leipzig, 1871. Valuable emendations. 

F. A, Paley, English notes, 3 vols., London, 1858-1860 (Vols. I. 
and IT. now in second edition, 1872-1875). 

H, Weil (7 plays), French notes, Paris, 1868. 

Of separate editions of the Medea the following deserve men- 
tion :— 

Kirchhoff’s, Berlin, 1852. 

Schoene’s, Leipzig, 1853. 

Wecklein’s, Leipzig, 1874. 


6 INTRODUCTION. 


tb, THE. MEDAL 


§ 10. The Medea was produced B. c. 431, with the Philoc- 
tetes, Dictys, and Theristae, and took only the third rank. It 
is presumably the earhest of the preserved plays, except the Al- 
cestis. In merit it ranks at least as high as any. 

§ 11. Outline of the Plot. — Medea is the daughter of 
Aeetes, king of Colchis, and like her father’s sister, Circe, is 
endowed with knowledge of magic. Enamored of Jason, who 
comes with the Argonauts in quest of the Gulden Fleece, she 
has enabled him by her arts to accomplish the tasks imposed on 
him by Aeetes, —the yoking of the fire-breathing bulls, the 
sowing of the dragon’s teeth, the destruction of the crop of armed 


5 





warriors, —and finally to slay the dragon which guarded the fleece 
itself; she has killed her brother Apsyrtus to facilitate their 
escape by detaining the pursuers, and has fled with Jason to 
Greece. They arrive at Tolcus in Thessaly, where the crafty 
Pelias, Jason’s uncle, is king. The throne is nehtfully Jason’s, 
for Pelias had seized it from Aeson, Jason’s father, and between 
the usurper and the rightful claimant there is mutual fear and 
distrust. In Jason’s behalf Medea compasses the death of Pe- 
lias; she persuades his own daughters to slay him and boil him 
in a kettle, in the belief that through her enchantments they 
will thus be able to renew his youth. From the consequences 
of this deed Jason and Medea seek refuge in flight, and make 
their abode in Corinth. Here they live peacefully as exiles for 
a time, but Jason presently tires of his barbarian spouse, devoted 
though she is, and longs for a connection which shall advance 
him in wealth and dignity in his new home; accordingly he 
deserts Medea, and receives in marriage the daughter of Creon, 
the king of the country. All the passion of Medea’s wild and 
unbridled nature is roused by this indignity. Here the play 
opens. 

Prologue (1 — 130), — Medea’s nurse in a soliloquy sets forth 





INTRODUCTION. 7 


the situation and describes her mistress’s passionate grief, which 
she fears may lead her to some desperate deed. The rardaywyds 
or slave-guardian of Medea’s two children enters with his charge. 
He has heard a rumor that Medea and the children are banished 
by a royal edict. He is bidden to withhold this from Medea, 
and to keep the boys in close seclusion. Medea’s voice is heard 
from within in outbursts of despair and rage. 

Parodus (131-213). — The Chorus of Corinthian women, 
friends of Medea, approach to express their sympathy. Medea 
still speaks from within. The nurse, at the request of the chorus, 
enters the house to persuade her mistress to appear. 

First Episode (214-409). — Medea comes forth in answer to 
the summons, in a calmer mood. She describes her forlorn con- 
dition feelingly, and exacts from the chorus a promise of silence 
in case she shall find means for requiting her enemies. Creon 
now enters to announce the decree of exile against her, on ground 
of threats uttered against the royal family. Medea feigns sub- 
mission and innocence, and by humble entreaty obtains a respite 
of one day. No sooner is Creon’s back turned than her mien 
changes, and she declares her intention of accomplishing her re- 
venge within the allotted day, — by her secret arts, should any 
refuge open to her where she may afterwards seek safety, other- 
wise openly, dagger in hand. She will meanwhile wait to see 
whether such means of safety shall present themselves. 

First Stasimon (410 - 445), — A choral ode. 

Second Episode (446 —626).— A spirited scene between Jason 
and Medea. The former comes to offer Medea money for her 
journey. To her passionate invective Jason replies with what 
sophistry he may. The calm impudence with which he proffers 
his wretched excuses for his conduct, and even feigns to act the 
magnanimous toward the woman he has wronged, reveal him as 
a heartless villain. His offers of assistance are scornfully re- 
jected. 

Second Stasimon (627 —662),— A choral song. 

Third Episode (663 — 823), — The hoped-for aid comes to Me- 





8 INTRODUCTION. 


dea in the person of Aegeus, who chances to be passing through 
Corinth on his way to consult Pittheus concerning an obscure 
oracle which has been given him at Delphi. He asks the cause 
of Medea’s grief, and at her entreaty promises her protection if 
she will come to his court at Athens. When Aegeus is gone, 
Medea unfolds to the chorus the plan which she has dimly had 
in mind from the outset. She will send her children to the 
princess, Jason’s bride, entreating her intercession in their be- 
half, and they shall take her as a present a poisoned robe, to 
put on which will be certain death. Having thus destroyed her 
rival, she will slay her own children as the bitterest retaliation 
she can inflict on Jason. In pursuance of this plan the nurse 
is despatched to summon Jason to a new interview. 

Third Stasimon (824-865), — Choral ode. 

Fourth Episode (866-975). — Jason reappears, and Medea 
in an altered tone pretends to have considered the matter anew, 
and to have laid aside her wrath. She asks torgiveness for her 
former language, expresses approval of his course, and begs for 
his good offices with his bride in behalf of the children. Jason, 
thrown completely off his guard, promises this, and the boys are 
sent with the gifts. Remarkable in this scene is the mixture 
of real and pretended feeling on Medea’s part ; in the midst of 
her feigned contrition she is melted to real tears at the thought 
of what awaits the children. 

Fourth Stasimon (976 = 1001). — Choral ode. 

Fifth Episode (1002-1250). — The paedagogus, returning 
with the children, announces that their mission has been suc- 
cessful, and that the boys are freed from the sentence of banish- 
ment. Medea bids him retire, and strugeles long with herself ; 
her heart fails her when she thinks of child-murder, but her evil 
passions nerve her to the deed. A pause ensues while they 
await further news, which is filled by a long anapaestic passage 
from the chorus. Then a messenger arrives in breathless haste 
to bring tidings of the catastrophe. The princess and Creon are 
killed by the poisoned robe. Their death is described at length. 
Medea enters the house to slay her children. 


INTRODUCTION. a 


Fifth Stasimon (1251-1292), — The chorus implores the gods 
to prevent the unnatural crime. The cries of the ill-fated chil- 
dren are heard from within. 

Exodus (1293-1419). —Jason comes hoping to save his chil- 
dren from the hands of the exasperated Corinthians. Learning 
what has just happened, he is overwhelmed with rage and sor- 
row. As he is trying to force his way into the dwelling, Medea, 
with the bodies of the children, appears aloft in a chariot drawn 
by winged dragons, which has suddenly been sent to her aid by 
Helios. After some further parley, Medea announces that she 
will bury the bodies in the temple of Hera Acraea, and institute 
a solemn feast in their honor; then predicting Jason’s death, she 
departs exulting in the completeness of her revenge. 

§ 12. Remarks. — The interest all centres in Medea and 
her all-absorbing passion. Her love and hate are terrible in 
their strength. The poet Jays stress on her being a foreigner ; 
he means to depict human nature in its wilder phase, with pas- 
sions unmitigated by the restraining influences of laws and 





Hellenic civilization. Aside from this vehemence there is no 
grandeur in the character, no moral elevation. Our sympathy 
can only partly go with her; we cannot, even from a Greek 
point of view, approve her revenge, nor regard it as a deed neces- 
sary under the circumstances ; yet there is a vivid reality in it. 
But how is it that the murder of his children is so terrible a 
punishment for Jason, worse than even his own death, which 
Medea is perfectly able to bring about! Certainly it is not that 
Jason loves the children so extraordinarily. For although 562 
flg., 914 flg. he affects great interest in their welfare, still this 
does not prevent his acquiescing quite unconcernedly in the 
decree which banishes them, nor does it occur to him to attempt 
to have this decree revoked until Medea, 940, proposes it; his 
indifference to his children is subject of remark, 76, and Medea 
taunts him with it, 1396, 1401. He first shows real solicitude 
in their behalf after the death of his bride. The real force of 
the punishment consists then in leaving him without children to 


10 INTRODUCTION. 


perpetuate the family and to support him in old age, and is fully 
felt only in connection with the murder of his new wife, which 
cuts off all hope of future offspring. The bitterness of this lot 
to a Greek mind can be only imperfectly understood by us. To 
him the extinction of his race was a terrible misfortune. And 
that herein lies the weight of Medea’s revenge is plain from 803 
fig. and 1348. It is, however, to be noted that the poet ignores 
the obvious possibility that Jason may take yet a third wife and 
beget children. We might, indeed, understand the prediction 
of Jason’s death, 1386, as intended to cut off this resource, if we 
supposed a speedy death to be meant; but that again is hardly 
consistent with the words péve wai ynpas, 1396. There is, 
therefore, plainly, this weak point in the construction of the 
plece. 

The sending of the dragon-chariot 1s a sudden intervention on 
the part of the god, for otherwise Medea’s excuse for her child- 
murder, that the boys must in any case die (1060, 1236), would 
not hold good, since there would be the possibility of her saving 
them as well as herself by flight. Aristotle blames this super- 
natural intervention at the close, but there is this to be said for 
it, that the winding-up of the action does not depend in any 
great measure on it, there being nothing to show that Medea 
herself could not escape without the chariot, as she has expected 
to do throughout. The most that the chariot does is to enable 
her to rescue and bury the bodies of the children, and to appear 
triumphant in the last colloguy with Jason, while it enhances, 
of course, the scenic effect of the close. With more justice one 
might find fault with the introduction of Aegeus, whose appear- 
ance just at the nick of time is purely accidental and not brought 
about by anything in the action itself. In fact this scene has 
little dramatic interest or import, and seems to be introduced 
mainly to bring on the stage an Athenian national hero. 

It is somewhat surprising to find Medea at the end imposing 
a festival in atonement for her own crime on the Corinthians, 
whom she has just made her bitter enemies. We must suppose 





INTRODUCTION. 11 


that the authority of Hera is to effect this, who is the protectress 
of Medea as of all the Argonauts.* 

The character of Jason is that of complete selfishness, a selfish- 
ness which has overrun and stifled his natural good impulses. 
Creon is imperious but well-meaning. Aegeus is a mere lay- 
figure. The servants, on the other hand, are well conceived ; 
the nurse, with her bustling anxiety, is particularly good. 

§ 13. Question of Double Recension. —There seems to 
be some reason for thinking that the Medea has undergone a 
revision or alteration since its first production, and that we have 
not the play exactly in its original form. Porson, Boeckh, Her- 
mann, and others have thought this; Elmsley, Matthiae, Pflugk, 
have denied it. The chief eapeinelaans in oe or are: 1. The 
dittography (passage written in two ways), 723, 724, 729, 730 = 
725-728; see note. Hermann thinks 777 = es , 779, another 
such, 2. Words quoted from Medea, but not found in our play. 
Such are the words & GeppoBovdov arAayxvor, said by the Schol. 
Aristoph. Ach. 119 to be é 77 Myéeta Eipiridov. Aristophanes 
Pax 1012 quotes ék Mydedas (whose Medea he does not say) 6A0- 
pay, dAcpay, not in our Medea (yet see 97), but found Iph. T. 152. 
Lastly in Ennius’ Medea is a translation of the verse pod codu- 
oTnv oatis ovy atta ‘oodds, Which Cicero (Fam. 13, 15) quotes 
from Euripides. None of these reasons are cogent; the dittog- 
raphy may be due to an interpolator, the Scholiast and Aris- 
tophanes might have quoted carelessly, and the Ennian verse is 
probably a case of contaminatio. Other things that have been 
urged as evidence of a double recension are altogether trifling. 

§ 14. Relation to Neophron’s Medea. — Neophron, 
contemporary of Euripides, wrote a Medea which, according to 
Aristotle and Dicaearchus (see the first Hypothesis), served as a 
model for Euripides; nay, they seem to think the latter guilty 
of plagiarism in appropriating Neophron’s work. 





* Boeckh fancied that in the first edition of the piece it was Hera her- 
self who commanded this in person. 


12 INTRODUCTION. 


And in truth Neophron’s play, as is plain from the extant frag- 
ments (see Appendix), was very like Euripides’, Aegeus was 
introduced, but as coming expressly to consult Medea about the 
oracle, not as on his way to Pittheus. There was likewise a 
scene corresponding to 1021 flg., in which Medea wavered be- 
tween love for her children and desire for revenge. And at the 
end Jason’s death was predicted by Medea as at 1386, not, how- 
ever, the same manner of death, but suicide. ; 

If, as is implied in the above statement, Neophron’s play was 
written before Euripides’, the credit for the design must be due 
in large measure to the former; Euripides must have followed 
him closely in the plot and construction of the piece, though 
that he borrowed his language is unlikely.* But the peculiar 
power of the Euripidean play seems to have thrown its prede- 
cessor quite into the shade. 

§ 15. Scenery, etc. 
Medea’s house, the orchestra an open space before it. The pal- 
ace and Jason’s house are supposed to be on the right, the side 
whence personages coming from the city or harbor regularly en- 
tered. At the end of the piece Medea and her dragon-car appear 
aloft, either upon the pyxavy, a contrivance for sudden appari- 
tions situated at the top of the scene-wall, or on the aidpynya, - 
swinging machine suspended with cords from above. 

The Protagonist had of course the part of Medea; the Deutera- 
gonist probably those of the nurse, Jason, and the messenger ; 
the Tritagonist those of the paedagogus, Creon, and Aegeus. 
The few lines assigned the boys (outeries from behind the scene) 
would also be spoken by the Deuteragonist and Tritagonist. 


The scene represents the front of 








* Wecklein contends that the notice in question is wrong, and that Ku- 
ripides’ first Medea was older than Neophron’s. But surely Aristotle and 
his pupil were in a situation to know from the original records to which 
play the priority belonged. 


INTRODUCTION. iS 


Ill. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE 
MYT 


§ 16. Medea’s adventures at Corinth seem at first view to be 
a sort of appendage or sequel to the story of the Argonautic ex- 
pedition ; in reality, however, they are a separate and indepen- 
dent legend which was only later brought into connection with 
the Argonauts. The Corinthian Medea is essentially a distinct 
personage from the Argonautic, although both are perhaps devel- 
opments of the same germinal idea. 

§ 17. The Argonautic Story.— This legend was at home 
among the Minyae of Ioleus and Orchomenus; it was their 
national epic in the earliest times, later modified and enlarged 
beyond its original boundaries by the poets, so that it became 
common Hellenic property. Aea, the land where the Golden 
Fleece is kept, is a sunny enchanted island in the distant sea. 
Homer thinks of it as somewhere in the west, but the Minyans, 
whose sea-outlook was an easterly one, must naturally have 
sought it in the east, and there it became at last fixed. 

The Homeric Poems allude simply to the Argonaut myth as 





something well known, mention Jason as having passed the 
mAaykrat or clashing rocks, and as having visited Lemnos, know 
Aeetes as son of Helios and sister of Circe.* Medea is not 
spoken of. 

LHesiod’s Theogony, 960 fle., 992 fly. Here is the earliest men- 
tion of Medea. She is daughter of Aeetes and Idyia, helps Jason 
perform the orovdevres defAoe laid on him by Pelias, returns with 
Jason to Toleus, lives with him there and bears a son, who 
is reared by Chiron the centaur. Medea is here distinctly a 
goddess. 








Odi Iie a0 voll mos: 


14 INTRODUCTION. 


Pindar in the fourth Pythian ode gives a long and beautiful 
account of the sending of the expedition, and the adventures of 
the Argonauts, which closes with the return of Jason and 
Medea. Colchis is now for the first time fixed as the abode 
of Aeetes. 

Of other poets’ treatment of this theme we know next to noth- 
ing. Only in its latest phase, with many embellishments, it 
reappears in the Argonautica of Apollonius. 

Medea’s rdle in this myth is a subordinate one. She is but 
the enchantress who helps Jason obtain the fleece. Preller 
thinks that the old fable closed with the death of Pelias through 
her wiles. 

§ 18. The Corinthian Legend. — That this is not a mere 
amplification of the Argonautic story, but a primitive local 
myth, is clear from this, that it was bound up with very an- 
cient religious rites. The Corinthians had, we know, the cus- 
tom of performing yearly propitiatory sacrifices to atone for 
the murder of Medea’s children; this rite was celebrated in con- 
nection with the worship of Hera dxpata, a national divinity 
of Corinth. Their sepulchre was shown at Corinth in Pau- 
sanias’ time. The tale was variously told, and its earlier forms 
are quite unlike the tragic story. The germ is everywhere the 
killing of the children, either by Medea herself or by the Co- 
rinthians. 

Medea is a benefactress of Corinth ; she is said to have deliv- 
ered the city from a famine ;* she appears at first as queen; in- 
deed, she was conceived of as divine.t 

Eumelus, a Corinthian poet (about 750 B. c.) in his Kopw6caxa 
treated this subject at length.t According to him Medea was 
queen of Corinth. The sovereignty belonged to her, since the 
throne had formerly been assigned her father Aeetes by Helios ; and 





* Schol. Med. 11; Schol. Pind. Ol. xiii. 52. 
+ Schol. Med. 10. 
tT Sehol.. Med, 10> Schol.. Pind., OF; xii. 52s Patisam. to, Si 


INTRODUCTION. 15 


the Corinthians, being without a ruler, had sent for her to Tolcus. 
Jason is joint ruler with her. As fast as her children are born 
she hides * them in the temple of Hera,t hoping to make them 
unmortal ; failing in this she is discovered by Jason, who returns 
to Ioleus, and Medea departs also, leaving the throne to Sisy- 
phus. Doubtless the poem further described the institution of 
the expiatory sacrifice. 

Parmeniscus, an Alexandrine commentator, gives, we know 
not from what source, a different account.{ The Corinthians, 
uneasy under Medea’s rule, plotted to kill her and her children, 
seven boys and seven girls. The latter fled to the temple of 
Hera Acraea, and the Corinthians slew them at the altar. For 
this desecration they were visited with a pest which raged until, 
directed by an oracle, they instituted yearly expiatory rites, 
which were observed up to his (Parmeniscus’) time. Seven 
boys and seven girls, offspring of noble families, were every 
year shut up apart in the sacred enclosure and there offered 
sacrifices. 

A curious variation was that given in the Navraxria é77,§ 
an obscure epic of the Hesiodean school, which narrated the 
Argonautic story. Here we learn that Jason (and of course 
Medea) went, not to Corinth, but to Corcyra, and that 
their son Mermerus was killed in hunting. Now as Cor- 
cyra was a Corinthian colony, this notice is interesting as 
showing that a legend very like the Corinthian was current 
there. 

The early epic poet, Creophylus, author of the Oiyadias aGdw 





* xaraxptrrew. Or buries? Perhaps somewhat as Demeter (Hymn. 
Hom. v. 239) buried (xkpiarecxe) Celeus’ infant in fire to make him im- 
mortal. 

+ The friendship of Hera for Medea is explained by Schol. Pind. Ol. xiii. 
52, thus: Zeus was enamored of Medea, but she rejected his suit, and in 
return Hera promised to make her children immortal. 

t Schol. Med. 273. 

SaRause deo he 


16 INTRODUCTION. 


ots, had the story in a less primitive form.* Medea is no 
longer queen; she kills the king Creon by drugs, and flees to 
Athens, leaving her children behind her on the altar of Hera, 
thinking that Jason will care for them. Here the relatives of 
Creon slay them, but give out that Medea has done the deed 
herself. 

Simonides seems somewhere to have touched on this theme 
(Bergk, frag. 48). Medea and Jason he makes again rulers of 
Corinth, and expressly contradicts the older tale that Jason re- 
mained in Joleus. Further than this we know nothing of his 
treatment. 

Yet a step nearer the tragic form of the tale is that which 
Pausanias+ gives as the current account in his time. Glauce 
the princess now appears; she meets her death through gifts 
brought her by Medea’s sons, Mermerus and Pheres, who are 
stoned to death by the Corinthians. A pestilence then comes 
upon their children, to avert which the statue of Terror (Aeiua) 
is set up, and the regular sacrifices are instituted, at which they 
wear black and shave their children’s heads. These solemnities 
were observed, he says, down to the destruction of Corinth by 
Mummius. <A fountain was moreover shown, into which Glauce 
cast herself when in the agonies of death. 

The tragedians were thought to have first hit upon the idea of 
making Medea kill her own children, and in this sense an absurd 
report } was current, which represented that Euripides was bribed 
by the Corinthians to lay the murder upon Medea. But we see 
traces of this same conception of Medea as the murderer in Cre- 
ophylus’ account and the mystical narrative of Eumelus, so that 
it evidently existed long before, side by side with the commoner 
story. Nor can we doubt that Jason’s unfaithfulness and Me- 
dea’s revenge were elements ingrafted on the legend before it 
came into the tragedians’ hands. 





* Schol. Med. 273. 
pepsay. Oe 
t Schol. Med. 10. 


INTRODUCTION. por 


The original elements of the Corinthian story are, we see, 
these : Medea is a wise and divine benefactress, who comes from 
afar and rules the state. She and her mortal offspring stand 
under the protection of Hera. The children are destroyed — 
how, was less clearly defined — and Medea departs as she 
came, 

Jason is clearly no part of this tale, and perhaps the connec- 
tion of Medea with Sisyphus, hinted at by the Scholiast to Pindar 
on Theopompus’ authority, points to the older local tradition as 
to the paternity of the children. After the fusion of the Corin- 
thian Medea with the Argonautic heroine, the poets were at great 
pains to connect the two legends, and Jason is introduced along 
with other new features. 

There can be little doubt that Medea was originally worshipped 
as a goddess, and that the sacrifices were intended for her, but 
that she sank in time to the level of a mortal, while the original 
ceremonial was still maintained, transferred to the patronage of 
Hera. 

§ 19. Physical Significance of the Myth. — Medea is 
the Moon, one of the many mythical impersonations of that lumi- 
nary. The Moon, like the Sun, is all-wise because all-seeing, but 
to her belong especially occult wisdom and the mysterious arts of 
enchantment, such as flourish under the weird influences of her 
light. Hence her name Myédea (uyndec-ta), “ wise woman,” from 
pyoos. She is the Sun’s offspring (originally, no doubt, his 
daughter), for the new moon seems to emanate from the sun. 
She comes from the far west, deserting her Sun-father’s house on 
the western horizon, for the new moon is first seen in the west. 
Or she is thought of (doubtless later) as coming from the east, 
where the full moon rises. She abides for a time with increasing 
splendor ; then wanes and disappears. Her children are proba- 
bly stars, in particular the short-lived morning and evening 
stars. 

This figure, which in Corinth took the shape of a preserver 


18 INTRODUCTION. 


and divine ruler,* became in the Thessalian myth rather an en- 
chantress, and nothing was easier than for her to be incorporated 
into the story of the Argonauts, who sail into the same enchanted 
regions of the east or west in search of the Golden Fleece, which 
is nothing but the ruddy clouds of sunrise or sunset. 





* Wecklein thinks Medea a Phoenician goddess, and that her worship 
was supplanted at Corinth by that of Hera, when she was transformed into 
a priestess of Hera. This seems very uncertain. More reasonable is his 
idea that the shutting uv { the children stood instead of former human 
sacrifices. 


PLPiisaoT. MHAEIA. 


YIHO@ESIS MHAEIAS. 
[ATKATAPXOT.1 


"Iacwv eis KopwOov edOav, eraydpevos kal Mndecav, éyyvarar Kai tiv 
Tov Kpéovtos tov KopivOiwy Baoiiéws Ovyatépa TAavkny mpos yapov. 
peddovaa be 7 Mydeca puyadever Oar Und Kpéovtos ex tis KopivOov, map- 
aiTnoapern Tpos play Nuepay peivar Kal Tvyovaa, picbdy THs xapitos bapa 
ba tov maidwy méurrer TH PAavKy eo Ota Kai ypvootv orepavor, ois exeivn 
xpnoapervn OiaPOeiperar kat 6 Kpewy be mepimdakels tH Ovyarpt am@dero. 
Mndeva S€ tovs éavtns matdas aroxteivaca emi dppatos dpaxdvtwy TTEpw- 
Tay 6 map ‘HXlov éAaBev eroxos yevonéervyn avrodidpacket eis "AOnvas KaKet 
Alyet r@ Ilavdtovos yapeira. Pepexvdns b€ kai Sipwvidns dacw ws 7 
Mrdeva ave rnoaca tov “Idcova veov romoee. mepi b€ TOU TaTpos avTod 
Algovos 6 Tovs Néatous toijcas pynow oitws* 

avtixa 6 Aicova OjKe Pirov Kdpov 78worra, 
yipas dmrokvcaca lévingt mpamidecct, 
pdpuaka TOAN EYous eri xpucetowe AEBnow. 


, , > cal , -~ id eo ’ 
Aiayvros 8° €v rats Avovicov Tpodois taroper Ore kai tas Avovicou Tpo- 
ovs peta Tay avdpav atta avenoaca eveoruinge. Stapvdos b€ dyor 

4 oe) r CON A , > a > , \ 
Tov lacova tporov Twa Urd THs Mndelas avatpeOjvat> eykehevoacba yap 

” a a > 3 a , = 
aitHy ovTws imo TH mpiyrn THs ’Apyots KaTakoiunOnvat, peAdovons THs 
: j ‘ae . ies 
veas Stadved Oat Uo Tov xpovou* emiTETorans yovy THs Tprpryns T@ lagove 
TeAeuTHTAL AVTOV. 
a rn 7 , G , 
To dpapua doxet iroBarécba rapa Nedppovos Siackevacas, ws Atkatap- 
> ~ x > , > rd , Pe 
xos ev TO wept ‘EAAdSos Biov Kai’ ApiotoréAns ev Lropynpact. pepnov- 
3 Z , 5 jane 8 4 
tat b€ at’t@ TO py wepvaAakevat THY Undxprow TH Mnoeia. adda TpoTecety 

? , a ? ys * > , \ - if > at Oe i” 
eis Sakpva, OTe emeBovrAevTev “Iacom Kal TH yuvalKi. €matveitar Oe 7 

xX - > » ‘ , > > ’ b | 
eiaBodn bia TO Tabntikas ctyav exew Kai 7 eweEepyacia ‘pnd’ €v vaTraioe 

« a ens ee a , noe , awe , \ , = 
kal ra é£fs. Omep ayvoroas Tyayidas T@ VoTépw Hyot TpaTw Kexpra Oat, 
« ao 
@s Opnpos: 


eluara T audiécaca bOuwbea Kal Novcaca. 


APIZSTO®ANOYS TPAMMATIKOY YIIOOESTS. 


, A) A \ > , yw ~ > ~ - \ tZ 
Mydeca dia THY pds Taoova €xOpay TO exeivov yeyaunkevar thy Kpéov- 
# os AS , , , 
tos Ovyarépa amékrewe pev TAaveny kat Kpéovta kat tovs idiovs viovs, 
B i. Loves ee - , i$ > 3 a 2 
exaptoOn b€ “ldcovos Aiyet ovvoixijcovoa. Tap ovderép@ Keirat 7 pvOo- 
Touta. 
‘H pev oxnyi) tov dpayatos trdkertat ev KopivOe, 6 S€ xopos ouvertnkey 
I pev ony) Tod Spay pivOo, 6 d& xopos owvéorn 
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wy ? , ty -~ 
Tudod@pou apxovros ‘Ovpmiados rC' ere a’+ mpatos Etopiov, Sevrepos 
a hs , lal , 
LopokAns, tpiros Etpuridns Mndeia, Puroxtytyn, Aixtut, Oepistais carv- 
pos. ov o@ erat. 


TA TOY APAMATOS ITIPOSOITIA. 


TPOPOZ. 
ITAIAATOLO?. 
MHAETA. 

XOPOS TYNAIKON. 
KPEQN. 

TAZON. 

AITET2. 

AITTEAOS. 


WAIAES MHAEIA2. 


MHAEIA. 


TPO®O®S. 


E10” ded’ "Apyous py diattac bar oxddos 
Kodyov és alay kvavéas Luuthyyaoas, 
pnd’ év varracoe IInhiov wecety Tore 
Tunfetoa TEevKy, Nd EpEeTUaTaL YEepas 
avopav aplatwv, ol TO Tayxpvcov dépos 5 
TleAt AO v yap av dé ” ey, 

ehia petnAGov. ov yap av d€omow’ éuy 
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ovd’ av ktavetv Teioaca Ileduddas Kdpas 
TaTépa KaT@Kel THVOE yHv Kopwhiav 10 
Evy avopt kal Téxvoiow, avdavovaa pev 
pvyn Todtav dv adixeto yOova 
avTy Te Tavta Evpdpépovo’ "lacou, 
NTEp weylaTn ylyveTat owrTypia, 
OTaV yur Tpos avopa py SiyooTarTy * 15 
vuv © €yOpa mavta kal vocet Ta pidtara. 
Tpodous yap avTou Téxva OeaoTOTW T eunv 

‘4 > is Une > V4 
yapow lacwv Bacidtxots evvalerat, 

re , AQ3 a > ~ / 
ynuas Kpgovros 7aid’, 6s aiaupva xOovds. 


24 


EY. PIHIAGY 


Mydera 0° SvaTHVOS HrYLacpEevy 
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1 MEV OpKOUS, avakahel dé deELas 

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Lyd > ~ = “a , on 
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evel TpOs avopos Haber HOuknpern, 


5; ee, lee ? 3 rf > eee = , A 
OUT Op ETalpova ovT amahhaccovca yns 


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dew yadp* ovtor padtws ye cup Badrov 

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ts > ard ~ > /, 2 
aNN olde Tatdes Ek TPOXaV TETALPLEVOL 
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= vp Ni \ 2 be A A 
KakwY* véea yap PpovTis ovK adyew Pidet. 


20 


40 


45 


MHAEIA. 20 


TIAIAATOTOS. 


Tahalov Olkav KTHMAa SeaTroivns euns, 
Ti Tpos TUAaLGL THVO’ ayove epnptav 50 
exTnKas, avTn Opeopéevn GavTy Kaka. ; 
Tas Tov povn Mndeva eirer Oar Oédex ; 
TPOGOS. 
Téxvov dade Tpéea Bu Tov Iacovos, 
xpnatotar Sovdos Evphopa Ta SexToT av 
KaK@S TiTVOVTa Kal Ppevav avOamrreTat 55 
éyw yap eis Tour exBEBnk adynddvos, 
wo8” (wepds pw’ UTNOe yo TE KOvpave 
heEar porovaon Sevpo Seamoivys Tyas. 
WAIAAPOTOS. 
oUTw yap 7) Tahawwa TaveTaL your ; 
TPO®OS. 
(no a: év apyn Tha KovdéTw pecot. 60 
TAIAATOPOS. 


> 


@ pwpos, el xpr Seamoras elmety TOE: 
@S OVOEV OLE TOV VEWTEPWV KAKWD. 


TPO®OS. 
TiO €aTw, @ yepare; py POdver dpacat. 
LWATAATOTLOS. 


> -, , \ \ t >] > 4 
ovdev* peTéyvwv Kal Ta TpdoO’ cipnpeva. 


26 


EVPLOUIAGY 


PROD 
LY, TpOs VEVElov, KpUTTTE avuvdovrov oéber : 
ouyny yap, ei xpy, Tavde Ojcopar Tépu. 
ILATAAT ORGS. 


»” 4 “4 > oo rs 
Koved Tov héyovTos, ov doxav Khvew, 

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Texoous tpotehOwv eva 67 Tadaitaror 
faccovor, ceuvov audi Hepyvys vdup, 
ws Tovabe Tatdas yns éhav Kopwhias 

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avy pntpt pedro THAOE KOlpavos yOovos 
Kpéov. 6 pévrou pv0os ei ads ode 
ovK ol6a* Bovdotuny d° av ovK Elva Td6e. 

TPOGOS: 
Kal TauT “Idowv tmatdas é€aveferar 
macyovTas, el Kal pyTpt Ovadopav ExeEL ; 
TATAATOTOS. 

, aA , 4 

Tahaud Kawov helTEeTaL KNoEvPLATOD, 


la A , 
KOUK €oT exelvos ToL be SHpacw idos. 


TPOOGO 2; 
aTwhoper” ap’, el KaKOY TpOTOLT OEY 
véov Tahal, Tp TOO’ e€nvTdAynKEvat. 
TATAATOPOS. 
aTap avy, ov yap Katpos eid€vat Tdd€ 


, e vd x ze , 
déarrowar, novyale Kal alya doyov. 


MHAEIA. 27 


TPO®OS. 
> Pe a 9 , 2 @ be ett a , 
@ TEKV’, AkOvVED’ Olos Els Vas TATHP ; 
¥ X ‘a v , > ee , 
OdotTo pev pH: SeatroTys yap €oT ends" 
> ‘\ y > oh > # e A 
aTap Kakos y ay eis pidous ahtoKeTat. 


TATALALTOPOS. 
tis 0° ovyt Ovyntav ; ApTl ylyvooKets TOE, 85 
e Lal e ‘\ A 4 Lal ~ 
@S 74S TLS aUTOV TOU TEAaS paddov didret, 
¢€ QA rol e XN \ a, # 
ol pev dixaiws, ot d€ Kal Kepdovs yapw, 
el TOUTOE y’ EVYNS OUVEK OV OTEPyEL TATHP ; 


TPO®OS. 
tae. ¥ , ¥ , 
ir, ev yap €orat, Owuatwr ecw, TEKVA. 
% ben , ni + bee | , ” 
ov © as pahiata Tovcd’ Epnudaas exe 90 
\ \ / \ , 
Kal py Tédale pytpt SvcOvpovpery. 
non yap €ldor Cupra vy TavpoupEeVvyV 
Totad ws TL Spaceiovaav: ode TavoeTaL 
4 , >? Ss \ ~ , 
xorou, cad’ oida, Tplv KaTacKnw Wal Twa. 
‘5 fe 4, ‘\ - Ve , 
€yOpovs ye pevTor, 7 pirovs, Spaweré Tt. 95 


MHAEIA. 

ia, 

V2 > BS , , 

SvuaTAVOS ey peh€a TE TOVW?, 

EY , o~ x > ?, 

LW {LOL LOL, THS GV OdOLmaD ; 
TPO®%OS. 

TOS exeivo, dior Tatdes* pTHp 

aA x A \ , 
Kiel Kpadlav, Kwet dé yoXov. 
omevoete Jaccov Sdépatos elow, 100 


28 


EY PIRIAGY 


Kal 1) TEAATNT Ompatos eyyvs, 

pnde tpoc€dOn7, adda puidcoer 

aypiov HOos otvyepav Te hUow 
dppevos avllasdovs. 

ite vuv, xwpetl” ws TaYXOS low. 

dndrov O° apyys e€arpopevov 

vemos Oipwyns ws Tay’ ava€er 

peilove Ovum: Tl ToT épyaoetar 

peyadoom\ayyvos OucKatamavaTtos 


Wyn Onyletoa KkaKkoirw ; 


ee MHAEIA. 
alat. 
etafov TAapwy eTabov peyawv 
aét ddupuav: @ KaTapaTot 
mavdes OAOLTOE OTUYEpas LaTpos 
avy TAaTpl Kal Tas Sdpos Eppo.. 


TPO®@OS. 
+ er , a % re 
lw Lol pol. iw TANPwD. 
7 4 i + * , 
Ti O€ wou Taides TaTpOS auThakias 
f- 4 V4 > ¥ yy 
peTexovat; Ti Tovad’ €yOers; otpor, 
la ¥ , » e ie a 
Téxva, py TL TAINO’ ws vTEepahyo. 
dea Tupavvav hypata Kal THs 
> PD b) ee x A 
Oty apyopevot TOAKG KpaTourTEs 
o>: > ‘\ £ 
xaheros dpyas petaBardovow. 
TO yap €iMicba Ghv em toovow 
KpeLTOOV* EOL yoor, El wy pLeyaus, 
OYUPAS Y En KATAyNPaTKELW. 


105 


110 


115 


120 


MHAEITA. 29 


TOV Yap METPloV TpwTa meV EiTELY 125 
TOVVOMA VIKA, ypHTOal TE paKp@ 
Cal "1 % > 
hdara Bpototow: Ta 5° baepBaddovr’ 
ovdeva KaLpov dvvatar Ovyrots, 
vA > yy oy 3 wn 
peilous 8° aras, orav dpyitoOn 


, + 2 4 
daipwv, olkois améduxev. 130 
AOPrOos. 
= ¥” 
"Exhvov dwvav, ekhvov d€ Boar mpows. 


Tas SvaTavov 

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, ¢ > b) re rd ‘\ y 
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TPO®OS, 
ovK Eliot Sojtor: Hpovda 740’ 757. 
TOV Lev yap ever h€kTpAa TUpavvar, 140 
7 O° é&v Oahapous THKEL BioTHY 
décmowa, hitwv ovdevos ovdev 
Trapabadrouevn dbpeva pvoors. 


aot MHAETA. 
ata: 
dud pov Kehadas PrO€ ovpavia 
Baie tat dé prow Lyv ere KEPOOS ; 145 


ev pev: Javatw Katahvoatpav 


Biotav otvyepav TpoduTovca. 


30 


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ales, @ Zev kat ya Kat pas, 

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axyav olay a SvaTAVOS 
peédirer vuuda ; 
wn - 

Tis WOOL TOTE TAS aTAATOU 
KOLTaS Epos, @ patata, 

4 , , 
omevoe. Gavatov Te\euTaY ; 

, 
pnodev TOE Nlooov. 
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el O€ GOS TOTLS 
, 
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KEV TOOE [7 Xapaccou * 
, , 
Zevs wou TOE TUVdLKHACEL. 
x Y “d 

pn Lav TAKOV 


dupopeva Gov EvveTav. 


MHAEIA. 
@ peyaha Oé€ut kat wore “Aprept, 
¢ , o 

hevooe?’ a TacTyo, meyadols opKoLs 
evonoapeva TOV KATApaTOV 

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oly epe mpoo ev TOALOT GQOLKEL. 
@ TaTEp, @ TOS, dV atevacOynv 


> om L. & Pe Vd 
ala KPws TOV €/LOV KTELVACOQA KACO. 


TPODOS. 
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x A b) > X\ ¢€ 14 
TyV Undta@rt ets IwAKov tkouyv 


43 


460 


465 


470 


475 


44 


EYPIHNIAGY 


ovv ool, tpofupos paddrov } copwt€epa, 435 
A ’ ’ i” > v4 yy w~ 
Ilehktav 7 améxtew, woep adyiotov Gave, 
Talowv UT avTov, TavTa 6° e€ethov PoBov. 
\ la > ec > e ~~ > , > > ~ QA 
Kal TAO’ Vp Huov, @ KAKLOT avdpar, madav 
- 4 aA %, > | > a 4 
Tpovdwkas Has, Kawa 6° exTHTw héyn 
taldwv yeyotwv: el yap 7oO’ amass erL, 490 
ovyyveot av jv cou Tovd’ épacOjvar éxous. 
oo \ ta , > > » w~ 
opkav d€ dpovon TlaTLs, 00d’ eyo pabety 
} Oeovs vopilers Tovs TOT OvK apyeELV ETL, 
oN \ A , 2 ae > 4 \ “A 
n kawa Keiobar Oéop ev avOpamTors Ta vor, 
> \ , Jo, an eae. ese > ¥ ” 
eet cuvotoba y’ Eis Eu OUK EVOPKOS WY. 495 
ev deEva xelp, NS TV TON EXapBavov 
KQL T@VOE YOVaTwV, WS LaTHV Kexpoopeia, 
nw +. 3 , > / > e , 
KQKOU TOS avdpos, elmiowv 5° yudproper. 
ay’: ws pho yap OVTL DOL KOLVMO OAL, 
d0KOUTAa jLeV TL TT Os ye gov mpage KAAS ; 500 
Y > > i, = > , im 
ows 0+ epwrTnbets yap aicytwy pave. 
VUV TOL TPATOPLAL ; TOTEPA TPOS TAT POS dojL0us, 
Lal A ’ 
ovs col Tpodovta KaL TAT Pav APLKOMLND § 
7 mpos Tahatvas Tekuadas; Kaos y av ovp 
d€EawTo pw olkots OV TATEPA KATEKTAVOV. 505 
» N ” A N ” , 
EXEL YAP OUTW* TOLS [EV otkobev didous 
> * ’ J A , > > > ~ ~ 
exOpa xableatny’, ovs d€ pv ovK €ypynV KaKas 
~ , 3 »” 
Spar, col yap dépovaa TONELLOVS EXO. 
, a , 9. 3 Sigs , 
TOLyap [LE mo\\ats pakaplayv ay EAAada 
eOykas av7t Tovde* Oavyaator d€ WE 510 
Exo TOOW KAL TLOTOV 7 Tada eyo, 
El pevEopat ve yatav ex BePnpevn, 
, x 
diiwv CpnjLos, OY TEKVOLS [LOVN [LOVOLS * 


MHAEIA. 45 


, 3 ~ A 4 

Kadov Y OVELOOS TO VEWOTL VULDLO, 

\ . wn -~ 9 + ies , 
TTwxXoVUS aac bar Tavoas HT ETWOE CE. 515 
@ Zev, Ti d7) ypucod pev Os KUBSnos } 
TEKUNPL avlpworo.o oTacas capn, 
> A ’ Lod \ \ % 4 
avopaov 8° OTe Xpn TOV KaKOV dvevdevat, 
ovdels YapakTnp euTrepuKe THmatt; 


ROP OS. 


Sewn Tis dpyy Kat Svotatos édeL, 520 
oray pido. didovor cvpBarlwo ep. 


IASON. 
A s e yy X x ~ x 
det p’, ws €olke, py KakoV huvar d€yew, 
>] 5 yo ‘\ %, 5 , 
GAN wate vads KEOVOV olakooT poor 
akpo.rt Naidous KPpaoTeooLs UTekOpapecy 
THY ONY oTdpapyov, @ yival, ywooahytav. 52 
md % > 5 \ + , ~ v4 
éyw O°, émedn Kal Nav Tupyols yap, 
Kvapw vouile THs €uns vavednptas 
TOTELPaV eivat Geav Te KavOpaTrav Lovny. 
go. & €or. pev vous heTTOs, GAN emidOovos 
Aoyos dceAG ety, ws "Epos o HvayKace 530 
is b} Zz eI x, b] ~ in 
TOEoLs AbVKTOLS TOVJLOV exowoat Seas. 
aX’ ovK akpiBas adTo Onoopar Atay * 
OTN yap ovyv wYnoas, Ov KAKOS EXEL. 
peila ye wevToe THS Euns TwTNplas 
elAndas n S€OWKAS, WS eyo ppaca. 535 
Tpatov pev “Eh\ad’ avti BapBapov yoves 
yavav KQTOLKELS KQL otKnv eTLOTATAL 


vouo.s TE XpHoTVaL fy pos iayvos yxapw: 


46 


EYPITIIAOY 


mavtes 60€ o Hobov7T otaav “Ehdnves copyy 
» / »” 3 x wn i. - b] , 

kal dd€av €oyxes* el S€ yns ew eoxarTous 

Opolow @kELs, OVK av HY dyos eer. 

¥ > »¥ Ue \ > 4 
Elin © Emorye MITE YpUGos ev Oopots 
BAT “Opdéws Kahdtov vuvjncoar pédos, 

El MN TloNLOS 7 TUXN YEVOLTO poL. 
TOTAUTA [LEVTOL TOV ELOY TOVUV TEDL 
ele€+ apttdav yap ov ToovOynKas hoywr. 
aA > 2 v4 ~~ 3 id 

a 8° eis ydpous por Baciikovs aveiducas, 
> aA a aN: \ x vt 

ev THOSE SciEw TpaTa pev GOpds yeyos, 

» i , > \ , , 

eTELTA OMdpwy, EiTa or péyas Pidos 

Kal Talol TOls E“otow* AN EX Novos. 
eS x LX SNF ra % 

evel petéaTyy Seup “Iwdkias yGovos 
ToAAas ehehkav Tu popas aunyavous, 

TU TOVO av Eevpy Eebpov evTVY€aTEPOL, 

aA ~ ~ ¢ a ed 

H Tatda ynpat Baciéws duyas yeyas ; 
ovx, 7 ov Kviler, cov pev €yPaipwy dExos, 
Kans d€ vUudys YLepw TETANY[LEVOS, 

Ps > > y ¥. bs ” 
ovd’ els apdday toAUTEKVOY OTrOVONnY exav * 
y x ie, ~ a» XN , 
dXis yap ol yeyaTes ovde pEeuhopar * 

GAN’ ws, TO pev peyLoTor, OlKOYmEY KAaAwS 
Kat pn oTaviloimer Oa, yryvoorkwy OTL 

4 - “A 5 DS ‘A 
mevynta cevyer Tas Tis exTOOWY idos, 
matdas O€ Opdbayw d&tws Sdpwv euav, 

, > bs \ Lal . , res 
omeipas T adedpous Toraw é€x ceHev TéKvots 
els TAUTO Deinv Kat EvvapTyaas yévos 
evdaipovoinv. ol Te yap Talowy Ti Sec; 
> , , A V2 s 
€wot TE AvEL TOLL pEeAAOVTLY TEKVOLS 


Ta CovT dvnca. pav BeBov\evpar Kakas ; 


540 


550 


555 


565 


MHAEIA. 47 


¥ 

ovd’ av ov pains, el oe py KviCor AEyos. 

> b] 3 “ 4 b eS > ae 4 

adn’ eis ToaOUTOY NKEO’ wot dpHovpevys 

EVVNS YUValKES TAVT EXEL VomileTeE, 570 

x > = , , > Z 

nv S ad yevytar Evppopa tis eis h€xos, 

X “ \ x 7 

Ta \wota Kal KaAALTTA TOhEMLWTATA 

Tiber be. xpnv yap add\o0fev tofev Bpotods 
A lo ~ > 3 i Pi 

matoas Texvovobar, Onrv 8° ovdK Elva yévos: 


Rr > \ - 
XoUTaS av OUK 7V ovoev av parrots KQKOD. BID 


XOPOS. 
"lacov, eb pev ToVTS’ ExdopNTas Oyous ° 
OMS 8 ELOLYE, Kel Tapa yvounv Epa, 
doKkels Tpodovs ONY adoyov ov dikata Spay. 


MHAETA. 


7 TONG ToAXots Ely Sudhopos Bpotav. 
bs) \ \ ” 10 * \ A 
ELol yap OaTLS adiKos GV Todos héyew 530 
mépuKe, TAELaTHY Cyulay dphioKave * 
ylécon yap avyav TaduK’ ed TEeproTehety, 
“ la sy »” 4 
Tohma Tavoupyew* eat. d ovK ayav codos. 
¢ x \ x A ’ aie b , , 
@S Kal OV LY VUV Els EL EVTX HOV Yer 
4 e A »y 
héyew Te Sewds+ ev yap extevel O ETS * 585 
“~ > yx > 
xpyv ao, etrep HoOa pr) KaKOs, TELOAVTA [LE 
en of , > 2 \ XN ~ 7 
yapew yapov Tovd’, ahd p17) OLyy pirov. 
IASON. 
NO pea 5S \ 20. S , do 
Kaho@s y av oY TV TWO’ VINpETELS oye, 
EL TOL YAPLOV KATELTOV, ATLS OVOE VOY 
a A , - 4 
Topas meHevar kapdias péyav xoXov. 500 


48 


EY PITRTAGY 


MHAEIA. 
ov TOUTS © elyev, dha BapBapov héyos 
TpOs ynpas ovK evdokov e€€Bawwé cou. 
IASON, 
RD OR 7Q90 ¥ \ N Y 
ev vuv TOO’ tot, ey yuvatkds ovvEKA 
~ , va ei aA A ” 
yypat me Méxtpa Bacrréwv & vov exo, 
aN’, WoTeEp elo Kal Tapos, T@aat Oéhov 
O€ Kal TEKVOLTL TOS EOls dpoamdpous 
pvoa TUpavvous Tatdas, epupa Sépacw. 
MHAEIA. 
, "4 ‘ b) oe , 
Ly moe yévoito AuTpos evdaipav Bios, 
>» 7 iN SIEN , , 
pd OdBos oatis THY eunv Kvilor dpéva. 
IASON. 
otal” as perev&er Kal copatépa aver; 
TA XpynoTa py cor uTpa hawwéobw Tore, 
pnd’ evtvyovca SvaTuy7s elvar ddKeL. 
MHAEIA. 
vBprl’, ETELON) DOL pev ETT AaTOOTPOPN, 
> x. > »¥ , lo , 
eyo 0° Epnmos THVdE hevEovpmar xOova. 
IASON. 
avTy T40’ Ethou: poder” addov aiTLO. 


MHAEIA. 


, ~ A a \ Ee: 
TL dpaca 3 POV yafovaoa KQL Tpodovcd O€; 


595 


600 


605 


® MHAEIA. 


IASON. 

apas Tupavvo.s avoolious apwpery. 
MHAEITA. 

kal cots dpaia y otoa Tuyyavw Odpos. 


IASON. 


e > A “A , x , 
ws ov KpWovpal TOVSE WoL TA Telova. 
G\N et tu Bovier TaLoly } GavTns pry7n 

3 - 5 ~ nn 

Tpotwopedynua ypnuatwv euov KaPew, 

sae c yY 3 , ~ \ 
héy’+ Gs EToLpos abOove Sovvar yxept 

s , , > A , ee ae 
Eévois Te TeuTretv TVpLBoN, ot Spacovai a ev. 
Kal TavTa pn Oedovoea pwpavels, yuvar* 
hyEaca & dpyys Kepdavels dpetvova. 


MHABEIA. 


clot Tae , a A , 1M 
ovr av €€voict Torot Gots ypnoaipel’ av, 
our av Tt de€aiperba, pnd’ nuty didov: 
Kakou yap avdpos dap ovngw ovk exet. 
IASON, 
3: > 5 Md ~ \ , , 
aN’ ody eyo pev Saipovas papTvpomat, 
ic VA e e ~ , \ , 
as Tavl’ vToupyew cot Te Kal Téxvols Gedo: 
cot 0° ovK adpéoKet Taya’, GAN avfadia 
ve > ~ ‘. > & J 
dtdous amwbet* tovyap adyvvet théov. 
MHAEIA. 


xoper* 70m yap THS veoduyATov Kdopns 
aipet ypovilev Swpudtwv éEdmvos* 


49 


610 


615 


6 


ot 


9 
A 


0 


50 EYPINIAOY 


és >. yy vA ; . ia “A °° > -, % 
voppev * tows yap: avy Jew ELPNOETAL 625 
yajLels TOLOUTOV WOTE O apvera bar yajov. 


XOPOS. 


¥ aus, ee > , > > , i 
Epares vrép pev ayav eovres ovk evdoklay erp. a’. 
ove’ apeTav TapeoOWkK ay avdpaow: el 8 adus €AGot 
Kvzpts, ovK adda beds EVX apts OUTWS. 631 
, 3 , 9. NS oS \ , , > , 
pnmot, @ déoTow’, em” enol Xpvoéwy TOEwv epeins 
repo Xploar auKTOV OloTOV. 
avr. a. 
otépyo O€ pe cwppoovva, Sdpnua KahdaTov Oeav 
,  } > , 2 \ 5 , - , 
pno€e ToT audirdyous Opyas AKOpEgTa TE VELKN, 
5. > 4 & e , 3 N 4 
Oupov éxmr\n€ao ETEpOLs El NEKTPOLS, - 639 
mpooBador dewa Kvmpis, artodeuous 8° ebvas oeBi- 
Cour 
> , , , lal 
b€vppav Kplvol A€EXN YVVaLKOv. 


> , 5 , X , 
@ TATPis, W dapara, ea) otp. B’. 
ont a7roXLs yevoipmav 
TOV apnyavlas eyoura dvoméparov alav , OLKTpOTAaTOV 
| - 
ayewr. 647 
Bavaro bava {pos Sapelnv 
avatw Oavatw Tapos dapmely 
’ +) » oo 
auépavtavd e€avioaca: pox Oav & obk ahdos UrepHev h 


yas Tatpias otéper Gan, 652 


Eldopev, ovK e€€ ETEpaV dvr. B’. 
puov exw ppacacbar . 
\ \ | id > Ys ¥ ~ 
oé yap ov ToXts, ov diiov Tis wKtice Tafodvoay 
dSewortata tabéwv. 655 


= 4 ” ’ icZ - 
aAYapLaTOS oAo0 , OTM TApPETTL 


MHABEIA. 51 

py hirous Tysav, kafapay avoiEavta Khyjda ppevav 
€uol 

pev diros ovmoT eaTat. 62 


AITEYS. 
Mydeva, yatpe* Tovde yap Tpooipvov 
Kaduov ovdels olde Tpordavew didovs. 


MHAEITA. 


@® yatpe Kal ov, Tat codov Iavdiovos, 665 
Alyed. dev yns Thad eriatpada Tédor ; 
AITEYS. 
PoiBov Tadardv exhurav ypnoTyp.ov. 
MHAEIA. 
tt 8’ bpdarov yas Oeamimddy eoradys ; 
AITEYS. 
TalOwy Epevvav oTEepje OTWS yeVvolTo LOL. 
MHAEIA. 
Tpos Oeav, amrats yap devp’ det Teivers Biov ; 670 
ALPRY>. 


y fe 3 Ri , rd 
QT aLOES EC MEV Satpovds TWOS TUX). 


MHAEIA. 


, ¥ EY , » » 
ddpapTot ovens, 7} A€Xous amrELpos WY ; 


EYPINIAOY 


AITEYS. 
ovK eopev evvns alvyes yapnd\lov. 
MHAEIA. 
ti Onta PotBos eiz€ cor waldwv wept; 
AITEYS. 
copatep H kat avdpa cupBarelv ern. 615 
MHAEIA. 
Oduis pev Has ypynopov eidévar Heov; 


AITEYS. 


padiot, ere Tou Kal cons detrar ppevos. 
MHAEIA. 

ti Ont expnoe; éov, ei Ours Kvewv. 
AIPEHYS, 

adokov fe TOV TpovyovTAa pH hucat TOda — 
MHAEIA. 

mpw av Tl dpaons 7H tiv’ eEikn xOova ; 630 
AITEYS. 


XN. oN os , 30 ¢ f. 4 
TT Pw av TAT PWAV QUULS EOTLAV LOAD. 


MHAEIA. 


av & as Ti ypylwv THVSE VavaToneEts x Oova ; 


MHAEIA. 


AITEYS. 


TirOevs tus €ote yns ava€ Tporlynvias. 


MHAEIA. 


Tais, ws héyovat, Hé\omos evo eBEoratos. 


AITEYS, 


tovtTw feovd pavrTevpa Kowacat Gero. 
MHAEIA. 

codes yap avnp Kal TpiBwv Ta ToLdde. 
AITEYS. 

—Kdpol ye tavtov didtatos SopvEevar. 
MHAEIA. 

GAN evtvyoins Kal TUXYOLS COTW épas. 
ALLE YS, 

TL yap GOV oma ypws TE TuVTETHY’ O0E; 
MHAETA. 

ALlyev, KAKLOTOS EOTL “Ol TAVTMV TOCLS. 


AITEY>. 


tidys; cabas por cas dpacov dvobuptas. 


MHAEIA. 


= 
dduket po Idowr ovdev €€ euod radav. 


605 


690 


or 


EYPITIAOY 


AITEYS. 

ti ypnpa Spacas; ppale por cadéarepov. 
MHAEIA, 

yuvaik ep nut SerroTw Soper ever. 
AILEY. 

7) TOU TETOALNK Epyov aioyiaTov TOE ; 695 
MHAEIA. 

oad ic’* atysor 8° eopev ot 7pd Tov pidou. 
AITEYS. 

moTepov epacbeis 7 ov éyOaipwr déyos ; 
MHAEIA. 

peyav y Epwta TLaTOs ovK Eu Pidors. 
ATLEYS. 

iTw vu, elTEp ws éyels EaTV KaKds. 
MHAEIA. 

avdpav Tupavver Kydo0s npacOn daBetv. 700 
AITEYS. 

didwar 8’ a’tw tis; mépawé pot doyor. 


MHAEIA. 


Kpéwv, 0s apyxeu THO OE yns KopwAtas. 


MHAEIA. 


AITEYS. 


, > ¥ ae ae. A , 
OVVYVwoT ayav ap nV CEE Aurea Oa, yuvat. 


MHAEIA. 


ohwla* Kal mpos y e€€ehavvopat yOoves. 


AITEY >. 


\ A yO » N > , , 
Tpos Tov; TOO GAAO KaLWov av A€yeLs KAKOY. 


MHAEIA. 


Kpéwy pv edavver duydda yys KopwOias. 


AITEY >, 


» Ned 5-9 a 5 \ So SS , 
ea 8 -Idowv; ovoe Tavt ETNVET A. 


MHAETA. 


MA \ > Ve : ie Xt ts 
héyw pev odxi, KapTepety € Bovderar. 
2 > y , A ‘\ ra 
G\N avropat oe THTOE TOs yeverddos 
yovatwy TE TV Gav ikeola TE ylyvomat, 
OLKTELPOV OLKTELPOV LE THY SUTOaLpovA 
Kal £7 fe epnov éexmecovaav eioidns, 
CPs \ re ‘\ "4 > , 
d€Ear b€ ydpa Kal ddpors ef€orriov. 
Y ¥ N A , 
OUTWS Epws ToL TpOS Heavy TeheaPopos 
s 7, ae ¥ , 
yoo Taidwv, KavTOs OABLOs Oavo.s. 
y abet: > > Y , 
evpny.a 6° ovK ola@” otov evpyKkas TOOE* 
, , > ¥ b aes \ 7 x 
tavow O€ 0 OvT aalda Kal Taidwy yovas 
~ , Va 7Q9 <> , 
oTeipat ce Onow: Todd’ oida Padppaxa. 


705 


710 


715 


EYPITIAOY 


AITEYS. 


To\NoV ExaTL THVOE ToL SodVaL Xap, 
yuvat, TpoOupos eit, TpaTa pev Hear, 
¥ , a > , , 
eTeTa Taldwy av eTayyéhdeL yovas. 

> qn %. \ ~ , > ~ > , 
els TOUTO yap 67 ppovdds e€ipt Tas eyo. 

Y >» A \ > , , 
ovTw O° Exel por Gov pev eMMovans xfova, 
TELpaTopal cov Tpokevey Sikatos wv. 
[rocdvde pév7or cor Tpoonpalvo, yivat: 
lal \ A ” 5 »” #. 
€k THTOE pev yns ov o ayew Bovdyjcopat, 

EJ XN > sf > b) S + , 
avTn & edviep eis euovs EAOns Sdpous, 
pevels aavdos Kov oe py pee TW. | 
e} A > > A lal S| / / 
€x THTOE O° avTH ys amadh\dooov 76a ' 
a , X\ \ by > 
avaitos yap Kat evors eivat Oddo. 


MHAEIA. 
Yy , >] , ‘ , >) , , 
€gTAaL TAO * GAAG TioTts el YEVOLTO JLOL 


, » os , \ , a 
TOUTO)Y, EXOLL av Tav7Ta T pos oébev kadws. 


AITEYS. 
“A > , v , XN "4 
Hav ov Téroas; 7 Ti cor 70 dvcyepés ; 


MHAEIA. 
, 

métoa+ Tledlov 8 éyOpds éari pou duos 
Kpéwr Te. Ttovrous 6’, dpkiovor pev Cuyels, 
ayovow ov pellet’ av ex yatas ene: 
Adyous dé cupBas Kai Oeav avaporos, 
diros yévou av KamuKnpUKEvpaTa 

Zz > a , bs a’ ~ ~ 24 “A 
Tax av mifor oe+ Tapa pev yap acbern, 

lal ay »” \ / , 
tots 0° O\Bos eat Kal Sdpos TUpavviKds. 


720 


725 


735 


740 


MHAEIA. 


AIT EY. 


Tohhny eheEas, @ ybvat, TpounOiar * 


GAN ei doxet cou, Spay Tad’ ovK adhiorapat. 


> 4 ‘\ , » 3 ‘ > - 
euol Te yap TA0 €otiv aodad€aotata, 
Kyl tw’ €yOpots cots ExovTa SecKvivat, 
\ ¢ ma » ~ > lat < 
TO GOV T adpape paddov: eEyyov Geos. 
“MHAEIA. 
, A 9 
duvu medov Ins watépa 0 "Hoy marpds 
Tovpov Heavy Te cvvTifeis atav yevos. 
AITEYS: 


Ti xpypa Spdcew 7 Tl py Spdcew; héye. 


MHAEIA., 
Ee} $ eS > ~ ~ eS 7 = A 
ENT avTos ex yns ons ew exPadewv Tore, 
pyAT addos Hv Tis TOV euav e€xOpav aye 
xenta, weOjnoew Cav Exovolw TpoTw. 
ATVEYS. 
opvupe Tatav “Hdtov & ayvov o€Bas 


i , ~ iy 
Geovs Te TavTas EU pEvely A TOU KAVw. 


MHAEITIA. 


bY a , 8° a WSs Si ?, / 
ApKEL Sr da OpK@ TMOE HY) BREVOV mabous ; 


AILEY: 


aA a ~ Pd w 
a TOLOL dvaaeBovar VLYVETAL Bpotav. 


745 


750 


58 


EYPINIAGY 


MHAETA. 
, , , ay an ¥y 
Xaipwv Topevov' TavTa yap Kahas exeL. 
3 x, , XN € F > > te 
Kayo TOW ONY WS TAYLOT api€opat, 
mpagaor & péh\\w Kal Tvyova’ & Bovopat. 
MOP OS: 
aia o 0 Matas moptratos ava€ 
Tehac ere Sdpols, OY T €rivovay 70 
omevoers KaTéxwy Tpakeas, eet 
YEVVaLOS aVnp, 
Alyed, Tap enol deddknoau. 
MHAEIA. 


@ Zev Aixn te Zynvos “HXtov Te pos, 


Qo 
oo 


vov kahAtvikor TOV Euav €xOparv, pirat, 7 
va > e ba ? 
yevnooperba Keis 0d0v BeByKaper * 
vuv & édiris €xPpods Tods ewods Tice dikyv. 
OUTOS yap avnp H pada? exdpvopev 
Ayn TéehavTa Tov euwy Bovhevpatoav * 
> NIN pb) fe oe i 
€x ToVd avarioperOa TpvyvyTyy Kddar, 770 
podovtes aaTu Kal ToALapa IlahAddos. 
ow, N. , > , 7 
non O€ TavTa Tapa oor Bovrevpata 
ig 

héEw: Sdéyou Se pur) TpOs HdovyY oyous. 
Tépwbao euav tw olketov ‘lacova 

sanegs 2 A \ ea Fn ok ee 
eis ow eNMew THY EunY aiTyoomat * 775 
podov7e 5° avt@ padGakovs N€Ew dyous, 
@s Kal Ookel pol TAUTA Kal KAAS EXEL, 

[ydpous Tupavvav ods Tpodovs HUas EXEL 

N , on ae % A ’ , 
Kat Evipop etvar kal Kahas eyvorpeva * | 


MHAEITIA. 


Tatdas dé mEtval TOUS ELoUS alTHToMAL, 
3 e ies oe , 7 4 N 
ovx as hurova’ ay Troheutas emt xGovos 
> “A “~ N b] ‘\ } 
€yOpotar ratdas Tovs euovs KafvBpicoa, 
adN’ ws Sodotae Tatda Bacitéws KTaVvo. 
Tréurkw yap avTovs dap’ exovTas év XEpoty 
ta , v4 ‘\ ‘é VA 
vidyn hépovtas, THVSE py pevyew \XOova, 


Nerrov Te 7ém\OV Kal TAOKOV xpvandatov ° 


y n~ , b) ex af 
kavrrep haBovoa Kdopov audio x pot, 
n SY lal las > er 3 x ra 4 
Kakos odetTar Tas 7 Os av Biyyn Kopys’ 
to.otade ypiow happako.s Swpypata. 

3 a , ie >I > , , 
évravda pévto. TOVd’ aTad\aoow Adyov * 
¥” é =? a ¥” ¥” 5: 5 , 
@uwea 6 olov Epyov €aT EpyaaTEov 
TovvTevder Huw TéEKVAa Yap KATAKTEVO 
Tape * ovTis €oTw ooTis e€aipyoeTac: 
ddmov TE TaYTa Tvyxéaa “lacovos 
e€eyut yalas, Piltatwv Tatdwv pdovov 


pevyovoa Kal TAD Epyov avooLwTatov. 


ov yap yehaobar thytov e€ €xPpar, pirat. 


» ra A , » ‘\ 
iTw* Ti pot Cryv Képdos; ovTE ot TaTpis 
> icy 2 nn 

OUT OiKOS EOTLY OVT aToaTpPOdY KaKaV. 
3 , tA > ie Bris: Bb) ze 
npaptavov 760’, nvi« e€edipmravov 
Py Vg - >) XN yY , 
dmous TaTpwous, avdpos “ENAyvos Aoyous 
, = a e i“ \ ~ - - 
weaeta’, Os yuw ovv Few Tice diknv. 
y 3 > ’ eS ‘\ A + ! / 
our e€€ €uov yap matdas oeTat more 
Cavtas TO dourov ovte THS Veolvyou 
VUMPNS TEKVOTEL TALO, ETEL KAKTVY KAKWS 
Gavety of avayKn Tots Ewotor dappakous. 
, im D. A Vg 
pndeis pe havanv kacbevn vou.lérw 
2 e as. »} se , , 
pnd novyaiav, adda Oarépov tpdzov, 


59 


780 


785 


790 


795 


800 


805 


60 


EYPITIIAOY 


A > “A XN 4 ci “A 
Bapetay éyOpois kat dirovow ebpevy 
TOV yap ToLOUTaV EvKhEe€oTaToS Bios. 810 
XOPOS. 
> , £ “A ee > > f Mg 
eTeiTEp Huw TOVO’ eKoivwaoas hoyor, 
ao€T aperew Oédovaea kat vopors Bpotav 
%, A 2 2 , Ue 
Evh\apBavovoa Spav o amevvérw Tabe. 
MHAEIA. 
ovK €oTW ahhws: cot dé our Oe heyew 
Ta0° €oTIi, Tay TAT XOVT-AV WS eyo KaKOS. 815 
XOPUOS. 


3 ‘\ lan \ “A 2 , 
ah\a KTAVEel OW TaLoE TOAPMNTELS, Yuva ; 


MHAEIA. 
yy x a A 4 4 

oUTw yap av padtota SyyOein TdOcKs. 
AOPOR. 

ov &° av yévow y adb\wwraTn yuvy. 
MHAEIA. 

ITH" TEPLTGol TAVTES OVY MET OyoL. 

GAN’ ela yaper kal Kopi “Iacovas — 820 

eis TavTa yap 67 Gol TA TLATA ypopea. 

héEns O€ pndev TOV epol dedoypevar, 

Elmep Ppovers Ev SeaTOTaLs yuvy T Eus. 
XOPOS. 


"EpeyOeidat TO madarov odPror, orp. a’. 


MHAEIA. 61 


Kai Jewy Trades pakdpwr, Lepas 825 
, 3 rs > > ie , 
xépas amtopbytov 7 amodepPopevor KdewotaTay wo- 
diay, 
det 51a apmpotarov Batvovtes aBpas aif€pos, evba 
To?” awyvas 
evvéa Iluepidas Movoas \éyouae 833 
\ e ¥ fs 
EavOav “Appoviay dutevoat* 


Tov kaAdwwdou T amo Kynducov poas avr. a’. 

x 7, 4 b) id 
trav Kumpw kdyylovow apvooapéevav 836 
XoOpay ....... KaTamvevoat meTpias avéuwr [ avpas|- 


ael 0° €7Baddopevay yaitarow evddn podéwv ToKov 
avbéwy 
ws oe 48 , dl 
Th copia Tapédpous TéuTEW EpwTas, 
TavTolas apeTas Evvépyous. 845 


TOS OV Lepav TOTAaLaV orp. B’. 
7 ods 7} hiwv 
TOMTYLOS TE XOPA 
‘\ z yY 
Tav TaLoo€eTeElpay €€eL, 
X > e ¥ 2 y 
Tav OVX OGLav peT ado ; 850 
Ve ? , 
oKebar TeKEWY TAQYAY, 
, , a ” 
oKeat povov otov atper. 
LN, TPOS yovaTwv we TAVTwS 
TAVTN O LKETEVOHEY, 


rd 4 
TEKVa PovEevons. 855 


760ev Ppacos 7 dpevos 7 avr. B’. 
xeipi, TEeKVOV, TEV 


Kapola Te Ayer, 


EYPIHIAGY 


dewvav Tpocdyovca TOhpav ; 
a >» ~ 
Tos 6 oppata TporBaovaa 
TEKVOLS GOAKPUV MOLpav 
# a > ¥ 
oxnoes Povov; ov duvace., 
TAlLOWY LKETAY TLTVOVTWD, 
£ rs e 
TéyEar yépa owlav 
x: lan 
TAadpove Oupo. 


IASON. 


9 F “\ bs 5 ‘ 
Hxw kedevobeis: Kat yap otoa dvopers 
> xR ¢ , ~ 2 > 3 a! > ‘e 

oUTav apdpTo.s TOVdE y’, GAN akovVTopat 


, A , is 3’ >: “A ig 
Tl XPNKG Bovreu KQLVOV €€ ELLOUV, yuval. 


MHABEIA, 


> a. A A 
lacov, airovpat oe Tav eipnevav 
¥ P| > N A > \ ° i, , 
ovyyvopoyv evar: Tas 0° euas dpyas Pépew 
D , > \ oS. 7 x e x 7 
ELKOS O , ETEL VwV TOAN VTELpyaoTat dida. 
> * | * “~ ‘ i ie # 
eyo 0° €uauTn dia hoyav adikopny, 
> , ~ ve = 
Kaholdopnoa’ oayeTAla, Tl palvopat 
Kal Ovopevaivw Totat Bovhevovow eb, 
> N \ , , # 
€xOpa d€ yatas Koipavas kablorapat 
= - A aA tt ior & “~ » ig 
oe O, os nuw dpa Ta TUpopwTata, 
/ 
YHELAS TUPAVVOV Kal KATLYVHTOUS TEKVOLS 
3, e™ r 4. > > t 
Enos puTevwv ; ovK atardaxbyoopnat 
Ovupov; Th TATXO, feav topilovTav KAaAQS; 
5) Chee , AO > \ , 
OUK Ell peév jot TaLdes, Olda O€ YHova 
ie € oe X f x 
pevyovtas Huas Kal oravicovtas dihov ; 
TavuT evvonoag 7oO6 iBouhlav 
n nobounv aBouvdia 


TOAAnY EYovTa Kal paTyVv Ovpovpery. 


oO 


MHAEIA. 


vouv obv eTawa cwdpovew Té LoL OoKEts 
KndoS TOO’ Huw TporraBar, eyo 8’ appar, 
h Xpqv petewar Tavde Tov Bovevpdtov 
Kal EvpTEepaivew Kal TapEecTaval EXEL, 

, Va 4 7 
vipdnv Te Kndevovaay NoecOar oeHev. 

2 #3 \ a? > > gehts 7. 
ahd €opev olov ET MEV, OUK EPW KAKO?, 
yuvatkes* ovKOUY ypnV oO Op“oLlovcbaL Kakots, 
ovd’ avTiTelvew VATU avTL VyTiOD. 
Tmaplenerba kat hayev kakas ppovew 
TOT, GAN apewov vov BeBovr\evpar Td6e. 
@ Téxva Téxva, SevTe, eiTeTE TTEyas, 

> , Be > 7 ¥ / 
e€éhoe7, domacacbe Kai Tpoceitate 
matépa pel” yuav Kat duaddxOn?’ apa 

A s ¥ S| 7, \ “4 
THs tpoabev ExOpas eis hthovs pntpos péra* 
oToveal yap nu Kat peléatnkev yodos. 
hd Beobe yerpos Se€vas. olor kakav* 
ws evvoovpai Oy TL TOV KEKpUBLEVOD. 
SS > ¢ A 
dp, @ TEKY, OVTW Kal TOMY CavTEs YpOVOV 
piiyv opi€er @Mvyv; Tadaw eye, 
ws apridakpus eit kat ddBov Téa. 

4 lo 

xpovw d€ vetkos TaTpods eEatpoupéevy 


»” y 
ow Tépewav THVS eTANTA Sakpvwr. 


XOPOS. 
th \ + ef \ e fe , 
Kap.ol KaT OoowY yhwpov wpunOn Sakpv- 
Kal py TpoBain petlov 7 TO vuV KaKOv. 
IASON. 


BA ats Aw) ee eee A , 
alvW, yuval, TAO 3 ovo EKELVA Ee popar i 


63 


895 


905 


64 


EYPIIIAOY 


> Lee \ by ‘ A oN "4 

elkos yap dpyas Ondv Toveco Oat yevos, 
yapous TapeuTohwyTos adXolous, ToceL. 910 
> > > \ “~ be , ¥ 

GAN’ eis TO AMov Gov peHeaTHKEV KEap, 
eyvws d€ THY ViKaoay ad\d\a TO YpoVM 

d basa ” eX pOrs 

\ ¥ an 
Bovhyv: yuvaikos Epya Tavta cadpovos. 
bpov 6€, Tatdes, OK abpovTictws TaTHp 
\ yy X lal , 
Tohhynv €bnKe ovv Geos tpopyOiar - 915 
olmar yap vas THOSE yns Kopw6ias 
Ta TpaT ececOar TIY KaTLYVATOLS ETL. 
GN avfaverbe: radda 8 e€epyacerar 
TaTnp TE Kal Dewy oats €oTW Evpevns* 
(dou 8° wuas edtpadets HBAs TEdos 920 
podovtas, €yOpav Tov euav vTEpTepovs. 
avTn, TL xAwpots Saxpvtous Téyyels KOpas 
, < ¥ 4, 
oTpéaca NevKny euTarw Tapyida, 
5 > , , > > > “A é , 

KOUK aapEern TOVO e€ ewod déyeL doyor ; 


MHAEIA. 

ovdev: Téxvwy TaVd’ evvoovpevy TEP. 925 
TAZON. 

fapoe vv: ed yap .. Tavde Onoopat [7c]. 


MHAEIA. 
dpacw TA4d°* ovTo cots amLaTHowW oyots * 
yurn Oe Ondv kam Saxpvous edu. 

TASON, 


, , , ~ ’ 2 , rg 
tl dy, Tadawa, Tord’ eTLOTEVELS TEKVOLS ; 


MHABEIA. 


MHAEIA,. 
y 3 z A i et Mae ? , 
erixtov avtovs* Cnv & or e€evyou tékva, 

> ~ ee > > > , , 
clan dO€ pv oikTos ei yevyoeTar TAOE. 

3 > ® Y $35 > \ ” , 
GAN @YTTEP OVVEK ELS ELOUS NKEES Moyous, 

¥ \ ri > >? > \ 7 
Ta pev héhexTar, Tov O° eyo prnoOyoopar 
eel TUPAVvOLS ys pf aTooTELAaL SoKEl, 

b] \ FNS Bd ‘\ co , lal 
Kdmol T40 €oTL AMOTA, yrypdoKW KahOs, 
BnT €umodwv col pyTE KoLpavots yOovos 
vatew* d0k@ yap dvoperns eivar ddmots ° 
neers pev ex yns THATS amaipomev hoyy, 
matoes 8° OTws av extpapwort on xXeEpl, 

> A 4 Z. \ , a 
airov Kpéovra t7vde py pevyew xOova. 


TAXON, 

ovk old’ ay el Teioaipt, Te_parOar SE py. 
MHAEIA. 

ov 8 adda ony KéMevoov aitetobar TaTpos 

yuvaika Tatoas THVOE py hevyeww yOova. 
TASON; 

padvata, Kal Teioew ye dofdlw of’ eyo. 
MHAEIA. 


y~ ~ 3 A »” Va 
ELTTED yuvalkav eat. TOV addwv puta. 
ovdhy omar 5€ TOVdE WoL KAYa TOVOU " 

- ‘ - J A ~ > A v2 
TEWo yap avTH dap , a KaAAtoTeveTau 

a nA 3 ey , RQ2 9 , , 
Tav vov ev avOparoiru, oto ey@, TONV, 
[\errov te wérhov Kal TAdKOY ypvay aror | 


65 


930 


935 


945 


66 


EYPINIAOY 


mavoas pépovTas. ad OGov Taxyos ypEwV 
KOoHLOV Kopilew SevpO TpOTTOAWY Twa. 
WT) ts =] > a > e tas 
EVOALLOVYT EL 5) ovy €v adda pupia, 
3 See na 
avdopos T apiatov cov Tvyove OpevveTou 
CA , oy > 7 
KEKTNMEVN TE KOTpLOV OV 70H’ “HXtos 
\ rN a 
TaTpos TaTHp Slowrw exyovoitw ots. 
, s. ~ 
haluale hepvas Taade, Tatdes, eis yepas 
~ “~ , 
Kal TH TUPavV@ pakapla vUdy Sore 
id aa los 
deportes: ovtor dHpa peumTa SéEerar. 


IASON. 

‘2 S > , o% * wn , 
718’, @ patata, THVOE Tas KEVOLS XEpas; 
doxes oTravicew Sapa Baciheov TéTAODr, 
5 ~ de la a \ , iz 

oxels O€ ypuaov; oale, py didov TAde. 

” ‘\ las 5) A 
elTEp yap Huas aor Adyov Twos 
yuvy, tpobyoe: xpyparav, cap’ old” eye. 


MHAETA-. 
pn por av: reife Sapa Kat Beous hoyos* 
ypuads b€ Kpetocor puptov hoywy Bporots. 
Kelvys 6 Salpav, Kea VUV avéeu feds, 
véa Tupavver’ TOV O ELwV Taloav puyas 
~ x 3. , , > A , 

yuyns av d\rakaiwed’, ov ypurov povov. 
GN, & rékv’, elcehovte TAOVaLOUS Sdpous 
maTpos véav yuvatka, dexmorw O° eur, 
e 4 a 3 ey My Fg , 
ixerever, e€aiteraUe py hevyew yOova, 

ro v atl XN rs i” 
KOO HOV OLOOVTES * TovdE yap pah.aoTa O€t, 
3 a eee | b} A ee Aaah if: 
ELS YELP EKELYNV dwpa de€aabar TAOE. 
tA ie , r ~ * ore ay 3) “ lal 
UP’ ws TaXloTa’ pHTpPLO wy Epa TUXELY 

+ °F , # ce 
evayye ou yevo.g Je mpa€avres Kahas. 


950 


955 


970 


MHAEIA. 67 


XOPOS. 


Nov édrides odKére roe Taldwy Coas, orp. a. 
OvKETL* OTELYoVGL yap és Povo Hoy. 
déEerat via ypvoéwy avadeopav 

de€etar SVaTavos ata: 
Eavda § audi Koya Onoe Tov “Avda 960 
KOopLov avTa yepow haPovaa. 


, , > , , > Werks! , : 3 
Tela EL YapLS auBpooLws T avya Teo avr. a’. 
ypvootevKtoy Te oTehavov Teper bar 

= 
veptepois 0 Hon Tapa vuupoKopyoel. 985 


TOLOV Els EDKOS TETELTAL 
X\ A e , » > 
Kat potpayv Oavarov dvcravos: atav 6 
= as y Fe 
ovy uTeppevEetar... 
orp. B’. 
N > @ , 5 , \ , 
ov 07, ® Tdday, @ Kakovupde KNSELWY TUPAVVaV, 930 
TatowW ov KATELOWS 
o\cPpov Brora L LNO L ov Oa- 
p “4 Tpotayes ahoyw TE oa oTUyEpov Oa 
VaTov. 


dvoTave, “olpas Ooov Tapoixel. 995 


, \ \ ” > , , Fi 5 
peTacTévomat O€ Gov adyos, @ Tadawa Taldwv avr. B’. 
HaTep, & hovevoets 
, 7: yy # 4 X\ bd fr 
TEKVA VUupLolwy evekey hexewv, a ToL TpohiTaV av6- 
[LOS 1000 
A = , 
GdAq Evvoiket TOTLs TvVEvVY. 


WAIAATOTOS. 


A€omrow’, adewrTar mratdes ode coe puyns, 


68 


EYPLATAGY 


‘ A £ ‘ a - A 
Kat dapa viudn Bacidis dopevn yepow 
edcEar’> eipnvy dé Taxebev TéKvois. 
ea. 
TL avyxvleia’ EaTynKas HYLK’ EvTVYELS ; 1005 
[rt ony erpeas euTadw Tapyida 
KoUK aopévyn TOVd’ €& €wod déxer Ad-yov ; | 
MHAEIA. 
atat. 
WAIAATOTOS. 
Tad’ ov Evvwda Totaw eEnyyehuevois. 
MHAEIA. 
aiat par’ av6is. 
IAIAATOTOS. 
Hav TW ayyé\dwv TV NV 
ovK oda, ddEns 8 eodarnv evayyédov ; 1010 
MHAEISA. 
»¥ a » > \ , 
nyyéeras of nyyetas: ov c€ peudhopan. 
MWAIAATOTOS. 
Ti On Katndets Oupa Kal Saxpuppoeis ; 
MHAEIA. 
TOAAH M avayKn, tpéoBv: TadTa yap Beot 
Kay@ KaK@s Ppovova’ eunyavnoapny. 
WATAATOLPOS, 


v ya ‘ 7 , 4 
bapoe * KGQTEL TOL KAL OV TPOS TEKVWY ETL. 1015 


MHAEIA. 


MHAEIA. 


d\hous KaTad&w mpdcbev 7 Tddaw’ eyo. 


TWAIAATOTO®S. 


oUTOL pOVN OV Gav amelUyns TEKVWY. 


Kovoas pépew ypy Ovntov ovta cupopas. 


MHAEIA. 
Spdow Tad. adda Baive dwopdrwv €ow 
a \ ) 

Kal Talol Topo’ ota ypy Kal’ yuEpav. 
> , Jake A \ Y” ie , 
@ TEéKVa TEKVA, Ow pev EDTL ON TOALS 

\ oN > > Ky 4 > , S XN 
Kal Oa’, ev @ urovtes GOALav Ewe 
olknOET del pNTPOS ETTEPHHLEVOL * 
eyo & és addnv yatav elu 7) puyas, 

Q\ wn »” b) ~ ’ / 
mp opov ovacbar kaTioety evdaipovas, 
mp NEKTpA Kal yuvatka Kal yapsyhious 

> bs 3 A , > Ss A 
evvas aynrat haumddas 7 avacyebetv. 
> if “A > A > va 
@ dvoTdadawa THS euns avadéas. 
> la iy 
adios ap vas, ® Téxr’, e€eOpebapny, 
adiws 0° €udyfouv Kat kateEavOnv rovors, 
OTEppas eveyKova’ év TOKOLS ahynddvas. 
> , a ie , ou > he 
H pny rol’ y SvaTnvos eixov éridas 
ay 5; ¢ “ id pee \ 
Todas €v vty ynpoBooKynoeEw T Ewe 
Kat KaTOavovcav xepow ed TEepioTede, 
(nrtarov avOpdto.ce* vov 3’ ddwde 57 
~ va ~ x > F 

yduKeta hpovtis. ohov yap éaTtepnueryn 
humpov did€w Biorov adyewov 7 epol. 


e Te \ fae > Fa D0 Zz 
Byers O€ nTep ovKET oupacw didots 


69 


1020 


1025 


1030 


1035 


70 EYPTIIIAOY 


oper’, €s ad\do oynp atoaTtavtes Biov. 
pev ped: Ti TpordepKerbE pw Oupaci, TéKva; 1010 
TL TpooyeAATE TOV TaVvVaTaToOV yéhwv ; 
aiat: Ti dpacw; Kapdta yap olxyeTat, 
yuvatkes, oppa patdpov as eldov Téxvev. 

> » r+ A , 
ovK av Ouvaiunv: yaipéeTo Afovievpata 

\ , yy A 5 vai > / 
Ta poo Uev : aku Tatoas €K YALAS E{LOUS. 1045 
Ti Set pe TaTépa THOVOE TOls TOUTwY KaKOtS 

~ x lal 
huTovaay avTny dis Toaa KTagOa KaKa; 
ov Ont eywye. yxalpérw Bovhevpara. 
Kaito. TL Taaxa; PBovhopat yedw7 ddd€ty 
évyOpovs peferoa Tovs enovs alnptovs ; 1050 
Y a | >) \ ~ > ~ 3 

Tohuntéov TAO’. adda THS EuNs KaKyNs, 

h % ¥ \ ¥’ , 
TO KL mpoea Oat prah@akous Aoyous dpevos. 
YopeEtre Tatdes Els Oopovs+ OTw OE 141) 
Ours TapeEtvar ToLS enoial Ovnacu, 
avT7@ peAnoe* yeElpa 5° ov diadbepa. 1055 
a a. 

» ~ , , > > ‘d , 
pn Onta, Oupé, py ToT epyaon Tad * 
€acov avTovs, @ Tahav, PEiTa TEKVOD * 

> -~ > £ “~ ~~ > ox td 
exer pe” yuav Cavres Evppavovat GE. 

5 \ Pe’ , b) , 
Ha Tovs wap “Aton vepTépous addoTopas, 
ovTOL TOT EaTat TOVO’ OTwS eyOpots eyo 1060 
Taloas TApnow TOUS €[LOUS KkabvuBpicat. 

, > >) / ~ > % x , 
[wavtws of) avaykyn KatOavety: eet d€ ypy, 
nels KTEVODpEV OLTEp eLehioaper. | 
TAVTWS TETPAKTAL TAUTA KOUK expevEeTau. 

A \ > \ \ 4 5 , fA 
Kal 07 Tl KpaTl oTépavos, év Téwhowcl TE 1065 
von TUpavvoes OAAVTAL, Gad ol eyo. 


MHAEIA. TA 


GAN eit yap 517 Thypoveotatyy dddv, 
X , , , » 
Kal ToVTOE TELIbw TAnmovertéepay ETL, 
Tatoas TpoweTe Bovrdopat. 8067’, & Tékva, 
d07 domdoacbar pntpt deEvav yépa. 1070 
@ dittatn xelp, pirtatov S€ or Kapa 
Kal OXHMA Kal TPOTwTOV EVyEvES TEKVOY. 
evdayovorTov, GAN’ exer Ta O’ evOade 
Tatyp aetheT. & yAvKeta TpoorBodhy, 
> ES ‘\ es , 3 4 ie 
@ paOakds ypws tvevpa 0 ndvotov Téxvav. 1075 
XopelTe yapett: ovKET eit TpooPBderew 
Ola pos Vas, AAA VLK@PAL KaKOLS. 
Kal pavidvew ev ofa TOUHTW KAKG.* 
Bupios 6€ Kpeioowy Tav euav Bovrevpatar, 
OoTEp meyloTwV altios KaK@Vv Bporots. 1030 


XOP OS. 


Tohddkis Hon Ova LeTTOTEpav 
A »” ‘\ x € 2 
pvowv Ewodov Kat Tpos aptddas 
> , x \ N 
nov petCous H ypy yeveav 
~ 3 wn 3 XN ‘ yy 
Ondvuv €pevvav: adda yap €otw 
OvTa Kal NUL, 1) Tpomopidec 1085 
codias eveKev* TaCaLoL ev OV" 
De yy - és 2 eN 
mavpov O€ yévos — play ev moddals 
EUpoLs GV tows — 
OVK ATOLOUTOY TO yuvaLKOv. 
4 wn y 4 > 
kat dye Ppotav ores elow 1090 
TATA ATELPOL pNO EpUTEVT-AV 
Taloas, Tpopepew Eis EvTVXLay 
TOV YELVALEVOV. 


- 


2 


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e \ »” | a 4 
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a? ndv Bporots er aviapov 
wn Fs > b » , 
matoes TeAMeMOvVT’ OdvyL TUX OVTES 
lal , > / 
TOMGV LOXPwv améxovTat * 
a \ , » > * 
oto. O€ TéEKVwWY EGTLY EV OLKOLS 
yducepov Braornp’, €xopa pereTn 
KATATPVYOMEVOUS TOV aTaVvTAa ypovor * 
TpwTov bev OTs Opebwor kahas, 
Btorov @ order detibovort Tékvots 
» > 3 , ADH EEC ON , 
ev. 0° €k TOUTwY ElT eri pravpors 
»” an 
ELT él XYPHOTOLS 
poxfovar, 708 eativ adyXov. 
ev 6€ To TavTwV oiaOiov Hd 
TAacWw KaTEepw OvntoicL KaKOV * 
Kat 07 yap aus Biordv A ebpor, 
~ , > r, 4 ” if. 
copa T €s HBynv HArAvOe TéKVaV 
xXpnotol T eyévovT’: el d€ Kupyoat 
daipwv otros, Ppovodos és “Atonv 
Odvatos Tpopepav ToOpata TEKVwY. 
A > , N ae a 
TOS ovv hvEL POS ToLS aAAOLS 
id ’ y # 3. , 
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@ SEwWov Epyov Tapavouws eipyarpEery 
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Aumoto’ amnvyv pnt odxov TedooT Bn. 
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ti 8’ a€vov por THOSE TUyVaver Huy ; 


APE ECO: 

Ohwdev 7H TUPavVOS apTiws KOpN 1125 

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MHAEIA. 

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TO houTov HON Kal Pidots Epots EEL. 

APLHVOS: 
, 2 A A a \ > vA VA 
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, ee » Lal x, , 

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by gy lol a lal 
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hevany T anéotpey eutradw Tapnida, 

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héywy Tad°* ov py SvTpeErns eoet didoss, 

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plrovs vopilove ovaTep av Toots ober, 

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duyas adevar Tao Totad Eunv yapw ; 
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pakpay amewat tatépa Kal Tatdas ober, 
AaBovoa 7érhovs Toukihous HuTioYXETO, 

a om , > si , 
Vpvaovr te Vewa aréhavov audi Boarpvyots 
hautp@ KaToTTpw oynpatilerar Komyy, 
aipvyov €ika TpoTyetooa TGparos. 

” 2 > A > 2 , ad 
KaTeitT avactaa ek Opovwv diépyeTat 
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dwpots UITEpyatpovaa, woh\a TOAAGKLS 


1140 


1145 


1150 © 


1155 


1160 


1165 


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tévovT és dpOov oppace oKoTOUpEDN. 
rouvbevde pevTor Sevvov Hv Gap det: 
Xpovav yap a\v\a€aca Neypla tahw 
~ sf ~ \ , ye! 
Kwpet Tpépovoa kwra Kat wots dbaver 
Opovoitw euTTetovoa pn Yapat TEcELV. 1170 
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wppnoe, 7 S€ TpPOS TOV apTlws TOTW 
rd / , a \ 
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oTéyn TUKVOLTW exTUTEL Spopnpac. 1130 
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a \ 4 ¢ ». «£ 4 > r. (4 
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duthovv yap adtn TH éeTETTpaTEveTo. 1185 
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Gavpactoy ler vaya Tappdayou Tupos* 
mém\ot O€ NETTOL, TOV TEKVOV Swpnmara, 
Mevkny €SamtTov capKa THS SuTbaipovos. 
devyet 5’ dvaotaa ék Opdvwr Tupovpevyn, 119 
, , A , Wea age 
JELOVTA KalTHY KpaTa T adAor adAowe, 
pubar PéXovea o7éhavov: aN apapoTws 
cUVOETHA YpUTos Elye, TUP 8’, Evel KOUNY 
»” a Ny , S45 , 
everoe, paddov dis TOTwS T eapTETO. 


EYPITIIAOY 


mitver 0 és ovdas Guudhopa viKwpev 
lied P9 - 1) 

x: A z , a > A 
THY TO TEKOVTL KapTa Svapabys ideEtv : 
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dewov Papa: raced’ Av ddBos Arye 
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= & N re \ rd 5 , 
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xpnlwv yepaov eEavactnoar S€uas 
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¢€ \ Xx »” > b) A re 
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n 8 avredalu7 ei dé zpos Biav ayou, 
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KELVTAL O€ VEKpOL Tals TE Kal Yepwr TAaTHpP 

, 4, , tA 
Tédas, THEW Sakpvoirr cup popa. 

7 S, b ‘% > ‘\ 4 ‘A 

Kal Ol TO bev GOV exTOOMY ETTW hoyou * 


yrooe yap avTn Cyutas arootpodyy. 


1195 


1200 


1205 


1210 


1220 


MHABEIA. rere 


‘ ‘ e > A A e A , 
7a Ovnta 8 od vuv TpwTOV Yyovpat OKLA, 
ovd’ ay Tpéowas Eloy. TOUS Gopovs Bpotwy 12% 
Soxovvtas eivar Kal pepiuvyTas Koywr 
tovtous peylaotny Cnuiav dpuoKavew * 
Oyntav yap ovdels €otw evdaipar avyp * 
¥ » 2: 4 > “f 
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a\Xov yévour Gv addos, evdaiwev 5’ dv ov. 1230 


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€ory’ 6 Saipwr Tohda TH’ Ev HEPS 
»* , >; r 2 , 

kaka Evvartew evdikws “lacove. 
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v* rA YY ’ 4 ¢ 
Kopn Kpéovtos, 771s Eis Avdov 7vAas 

» iA iA ~ + | - 
OLXYEL YAwY EKATL TWY lacovos. 1235 


MHAEIA. 


/ ‘4 ¥ re , a, 
gira, dédoKTat ToUpyov ws TAYLOTA jLoL 
"Og , ~ PJ 3 Las ~ 
Taidas KTavovan THTS ahoppacbat xOoves 
Kal py TXohnY ayovoay éxdovvat TéKva 
tAAn povevorar 8 VEGTE, ; 
ahrty povevoar dvapevertépa xeEpt. 
v2 5 / A > x A L 
TavTws ob avayKn KatOavelv. émet S€ ypy, 129 
HES KTEVODLEV, OlTEp eLep¥aaper. 
GAN et’ omdilov, Kapdia. Ti péddopev 
Ta dewa Kadvaykata p71) THAToEW KAKE ; 
(ee 4 
ay, ® Tahawa yelp ey, aBe Eidos, 
AaB’, epwe mpos BadrPida hutnpav Biov, 1245 
S: \ ~ nw 
Kat un KakioOns pnd avapvnaOns Téxvar 
as pirtaf’, as eriKTES* adda THVSE ye 
Aafov Bpayetay nuéepav raidav ober, 


78 


EY PINTAOY 


dito. 7 epvaar, Svatvy7s 8 eyw yuvy. 


XOPOS. 


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aktis AeXiov, KaTideT (Sere Tav 
> ‘4 “A ‘\ , 
ddopevay yuvatka, mpi dhowiav 
TéEKVvoLs Tpod Bade Yep avTOKTOVOY * 
as yap .. xpvo€as yovas 
eBraotev, Oeav & aiwa .. ritvew 
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poBos um avépav. 
add viv, & pdos dioyevés, KkareLp- 
Eg » > | » la > 
ye KaTatavoor, €€eN olkwy hovevt 


> rs > > 7, 3 = rd 
ahavovt Epuvvewv UT ahaaTopov. 


patav poybos eppe Téxvar, 

, » , , »” > 
patav apa yevos didvov ETEKES, @ 
Kvaveayv hurovaa LupTAnyadav 

en; > rd > La 
meTpav akevwratav cio Bodav. 
, , ~ D 
devdaia, Ti cor dpevav Bapus 
xXoOdos Mpoomitver Kal .. SuTpPEVnS 
ovos apei Berar ; 
‘\ ‘ A ¢ ~ 4 
xakerra yap Bpotots omoyern pia- 
> P % Se > 4 
That emt yatav avtodovras Evve- 


da Gedbev mitvovt emt Somous ayn. 
be Xn 


TIAIAES. 


eevee 


» 4 XN X > a! Se ee 
Katreita Opyver* Kai yap ei KTevets of Opws 


1250 


oTp. a. 


1255 


1266 


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avr. a. 


1265 


1270 


MHAEFIA., 


XOPOS. 


3 , x 3 , , 
QKOVELS Boav AKOVELS TEKVWY 5 


- 


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ELAES* (a. 
olmol, TL Spdow; Tot dvyw pyTpos xépas; 
AIS p’. 
OUK oto , adedpe dittat: dd\AvperOa yap. 


XOPOS. 
mapé\Ow Sdpous; apn€ar ddovov 
doKeL LOL TEKVOLS. 
WAIAES. 
4, \ ” 3 4, > 3 ra f 
vat, mpos Heav, apngar’: év déovtu yap: 
ws eyyvs non y' Eopev apKkiar Eidous. 


XOP OX. 


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TEKVWV OV ETEKES 
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ig ‘\ ? 7. “A , 
pilav 67 Kw play TOY Tdpos 
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yuvak ev didros yepa Pade Tékvors, 
> \ ~ = “~ ” > e \ 
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ddpap viv e&éreupe Swpatwr adp. 
V4, > e , > > y , 
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Téxvav dvooeBel, 


1280 


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aKTNS UTEepTetvaca TovTias 700a, 
an , wn > > £ 
dvow Te Taloow ouvOavovea amo\AuTat. 
, nA: > , x, ae ¥ , 5 An 
Tl ont ovv yevoLT av ETL dewov; @ YUVaLKav 
héyos zrohutrovor, 1291 
y A » Se ” , 
ooa Bportots Epegas non Kaka. 


IASON. 


Tuvatkes, at 7nd’ eyyvs e€otate oréyns, 

ee ee U e + Ye Pi , 

dp’ év dopo.ow 7 Ta deiv’ eipyaopevn 

Mydeva Tota 8’ €7’, ) pebeatnkev huyn; 1295 
det yap viv nro yns ohe KpvfOnvar Kato, 

a \ bed oe ae 207 , 

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el py) TUpavvwr Sopacw dHcer diKnv. 

més” amoKtelvaca KoLpavous yovds 

5) A Pee “A , , 

aAa@os altn Tavde hevEea Oar Sdpuv ; 1300 
3 es b at a A ZQNV9 e ta ¥ 

GAN’ od yap adtys ppovTid’ ws Téxvwr exw * 

Kelynv pev ovs EOpacev Epfovaw Kakas, 

€uav O€ Taldwv AOov exoaaat Biov, 

LH pol Te Spdogwo’ ot tpoaHKorTes evel, 


~ b vf bs / /, 
LYTPO@OV ExTpaaaorTES avoTLoV Povov. 1305 
AOPOS. 
@ Thypor, ovK ola of Kakav édydvOas, 
‘lacov: ov yap Tovcd’ av épbéyEw oyovs. 
TAS ON, 


PO > ¥ <3) 5 a , 
Tt +) cO TU ; 7) TOU KGL ATOKTELVYAL GédXex ; 


XOPOS: 


Lal wn % , 4 
TALES TeAvacr XELpl LNT POY aoeev. 


MHAEIA. 81 


IASON. 


» , 9 17.5) , , 
olor Ti A€€ers; WS pe aTaAEGAS, yvvat. 1310 


XOPOS. 


2 >) (fe ee J ‘eo , VA Py v4 
WS OUKET OVTWY DWV TEKYWV ppovtile ue 


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A , ¥ > > \ Re -S 6 8 , ¢ 
TOU yop VLW €EKTEL , EVTOS i] aa) €V OW? ; 


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mvAas avoi~as cov Téxvwy ower povov. 


IAZON. 


~ ~ e a 4 
xahare Khydas ws TAXLOTA, mpoo7roho, 
exdvel” appovs, ws (dw Sutdovv KaKor, 1315 


\ % g x \ f , 
TOUS [LEV favovtas, TV de TLOWLGAL pov. 


MHAEIA. 


I sf -~ bE) , , 
Ti Tao de KIVELS KaVapoYAEVELS TUAGS, 
VEKPOUS EPEVVOV KALE THY Eipyar per yD ; 
Tavoat TOvou TOVd. Ei 6 euovd xpeElay Eyets, 
¥ 
héy’ et te Bovdret, yerpt 5’ od Wavoes TOTE. 1320 
, a x 9 ms 
TOWWVS OxXnLa TaTpos "Hos TaTNp 
didwow Huw, Epva Todepias yepos. 


IASON. 


@ ptoos, @ péytatov é€yOiaoty yovar 

eois TE Kapol TavTi 7 avOpéTwr yever, 

9 , A ’ ~ , 

nTls TEKVOLTL Goitw euPadew Eihos 1325 


EYPINIAOY 


» s ¥» > » 0.9 hae 
eThns TEeKOVTA Kap aTaLd’ amT@de~as * 
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Kal yatav, epyov thaca dvacc0€BéaTarTov. 
»” > > Xx \ = A ee > A 
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9 a 3 by b | 4 io , 
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‘4 ‘ A if 4 > 2 4 
TaTpos TE Kal yns TpoddT 7H ao EOpébaro ° 
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Twv dav adagtop els eu eakyn Wav Jeot: 
KTavovca yap 8) cov Kaow TApETTLOV, 
\ ree ee ¥ A , 
TO KadALTpwpov eiaéBys ’Apyous aKados. 
np&w pev €x ToLavoe, vupdevbetoa dé 
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bY lanl 4 x id > 5 , 
evvns EkaTL Kal A€yous of amwdecas. 
Aree 9 Pie Rok \ \ 
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re » > , , 
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GAN od yap av oe pupiors dveidect 
ie 4 > > , “4 / 
Sdkolp.’ Towvd’ eumrépuKe wot Opacos: 
Epp, Alo XpOTOLE Kal TEKVMY [LLALPOVE. 
> % = \ > XN 4 > be A , 
enol d€ TOV euov Saipoy aidlew Tapa, 
Os OUTE AEKTPWY VEOyapLwY dvHToOLAL, 
ov Tatdas ods educa KakeOpesapny 
¢ A A PS > Be 7. 
e€w Tpocete Cavras, ad amodeca. 


MHAEIA. 
\ em ow A %. 23 , 
pakpap av e€erewwa Totcd’ evavTiov 
Adyouow, el py Zevs TaTHp HTlaTaTo 


1330 


1335 


1340 


1545 


1350 


MHAEIA. 835 
WES 43 3 ~ , a? ] 7 
ot” €€ euov mémovbas oa 7 eipyacw - 
‘ > > ¥ t (ek, b) 4 , 
ov 8° ovK eueddes Tap atysdoas héyn 
\ , , b) “A > le 
teptrvov dia€eww Biotov éyyehav enol, 1355 
008’ 7 TUpavvos OVS’ 6 Got TpOTHeEls yapous 
Kpéwy atysov THod€ pw exBadewv yfovos. 
x A \ , > 4 Pf: 
Tpos TavTa Kat hé€awap, el BovrAEL, Kaden, 
Kal SKvAAav ) Tupanvov wxynoev médov * 
THS ONS yap ws xpy Kapdias avon apn. 1360 
IASON. 


b okey 4 A \ | \ eu 

KAUTYH ye AUVTEL Kal KAKWY KOLWWVOS El. 
MHAEIA. 

aap tau: Aver O° ahyos, HY od py *yyedas. 
IASON. 

@ TEKVA, MNTPOS WS KaKNS exUpaare. 
MHAEIA. 

@ Trades, ws oeobe TaTpda voow. 
LAS ON: 

ovTot vuv nun deta od aradecev. 1365 
MHAEIA. 

Gd’ vBpis ot TE Gol veodunres yapor. 


IASON. 


, - 3 5 , 9 ~ 
heyous oh€ y n&iwaas ovveka KTAavel ; 


84 


BYPITIAGY 


MHAEIA. 


‘ x A ~o> > A 
OPLKpoOV YVVQLKL TYMA TOVT ELWAL doKEels ; 


IASON. 


C2 , 5 N PR 2S aS nies , 
YTS YE coppav y FOC d€ TAVT €OTL KAKA. 


MHAEIA. 

010” ovKeT Eilat: TovTO ydp oe OH€eTat. 
IASON. 

010” eigiy Gol o@ Kapa pidoTopes. 
MHAEIA. 

¥ 9 = eS ‘¢ 

lcacw oars np&e mnpovys Oeoi. 
IASON. 

yy A yd 3 2, , , 

lcact Onta onv y amdmtvatov ppéva. 
MHAEIA. 

orvye.’ muxpav S€ Bak éyOaipw oer. 
TASON. 

Kal pny eyw onv: pad. &° amahdayat. 


MHAETA. 


A 5 , rd , ‘ S ‘ , 
TWS OVV; TL Space ; kapTa yap kayw bédo. 


IASON. 


1370 


1375 


Papa vexpovs por TOVaSE Kal KAadoaL Tapes. 


MHAEIA. 


MHAEIA., 

ov dy7, érel ofas 770° eya Dara XEpt, 

id > > 9 , > 4 n~ 
dépova és Hpas téwevos “Akpatas Geov, 
e la 3 ‘\ 7 , 
@S Lyn TLS aUVTOUS TOhELLWY KaAHvBpion, 
TUuBous avaotav: yn dé THSE LLcvpov 
TELVHY EOpTHV Kal TEAN Tpocarpopev 
TO NouTov avTi TOvdE SvaaEBovs hodvov. 

> ‘N XN a! Ly ‘\ > | ld 
avTy dé yatav elu THY ’Epexdeéus, 
Atyet cvvoixnocovoa TH Llavdiovos. 
av 0, woTep elkos, KaTOavet KaKOS KaKas, 
> A , bs td 4 
Apyovs Kapa cov heupavw teTmdnypevos, 
TiKpas TehEvTAaS TOV E“aV yapwv iddv. 


| IASON, 
ahia o "Epuvds dd\€oreve TEKVOV 
govia Te Aikn. 


MHABIA. 


. Tig b€ KAVEL Tou Heds 7 Saiuwv, 
TOU Wevddpkou Kal Eewardrov ; 


IASON. 
ev pen, pvoapa Kat TavooN€Top. 
MHAEIA. 
A XQ »¥ 2, 4 , 3 y 
OTELXYE TPOS OLKOUS Kal Bart ahoxov. 


IASON. 


atelyo, Surowy y amopos TéKvwr. 


1380 


1385 


1390 


1395 


EY PINAY 


MHAEIA. 
ourw Opyvers* pméve kal yypas. 
IAZON. 


@ TeKVa PirTara. 


MHAEIA. 


pntpt ye, cot d° ov. 


LAZQN. 
KQTTELT. EKAVES ; 


MHAEIA. 


o€ ye Typalvouc . 


IASON. 
@por, pirtov ypyla aTopaTos 
Taldav 6 Tahas TpoomTvEac Ga. 
MHAEIA. 
vov he Tpowavoas, viv aomacer, 
TOT ATWO G[LEVOS. 
LASON; 
dds prow pos Oewv 


pahakov xpwrus pavoat TEKVOD. 


MHAEIA. 


> ¥ 
OVK EGTL' [ATHY EOS EppiTTa. 


1400 


MHAEIA. 


IAZOQN. 
Zev, Ta’ akovets ws amrehavvopel”’, 
old TE TAT XOMEV EK THS UTApas 
‘ / A 4 
Kai Tavdoddvou THASE heaivys ; 
> > 3 , A £ % , 
aN Omdcov youv Tapa kal Svvapat 
U4 % 33 > (4 
Tae kal Oonva Kamileala, 
paptupopevos Saipovas ws pou 
TEKY’ ATOKTELVAT ATOKWAVELS 
wavoat Te xepoww Haar Te vexpous, 
a és + > sy , »” 
ous pntoT eyo dvoas odedov 
x ie z et , 
mpos cov Pbipevous emidec bar. 


ZXOPOS, 
Toh\hov Tapas Zevs ev OdvpTre, 
mokha 8° aé\rTws Kpaivovart Jet : 
NS \ ee) > 2 , 
Kal Ta SoxnO&T ovK érehea On, 
Tov & adoxytwr Topov evbpe Oeds. 
, > 3 A 4, La) 
ToLovd’ améBn TOE Tpaypa. 


87 


1405 


1410 


1415 


EGE ET Ss 


REFERENCES. 
H., Hadley’s Greek Grammar. 


G., Goodwin’s Greek Grammar. 
GMT., Goodwin's Syntax of the Greek Moods and Tenses. 


ON THE HYPOTHESES. 


Hypotuesis First. — Ascribed in one manuscript to Dicaearchus, who 
was a pupil of Aristotle, and whom we know, like his master, to have 
written such dramaturgical notes. A part is perhaps taken from him, but 
ke last part is plainly written by some one else. — éyyvarat: incorrect ; 
the play represents the marriage as already over. —TAavxnv : Euripides 
does not mention her name ; later writers call her sometimes Glauce, some- 
times Creusa. — pio Odv ris xaptTos : again inaccurate ; the gifts are sent 
in suing for a new favor. — Pepexvdys, a native of Leros, who lived at 
Athens about the time of the Persian wars and made a collection of legends 
(icropiac) in ten books. — LtpovlSns of Ceos, the famous poet (556 — 468 
B. C.), Who lived chiefly in Athens. — For as—moifoete we should regu- 
larly have rovjcar. —6 tots Néorovs troiqoas, the wuthor of the Nosti, 
one of the poems of the Epic Cyclus; it was commonly ascribed to Agias 
of Troezen. — Zrdvdos, an Egyptian Greek of uncertain age, who wrote, 
among other books, a work zepi Oerrah&v. — Boxe, sc. 6 Evpuriéns. — trro- 
Baréobat, falsely appropriated, palming it off as his own, as a woman an- 
other’s child. —‘EAAd80s Bios, in three books, was Dicaearchus’ chief 
work; it was an account of the customs, institutions, and topography of 
Greece. — trropyqpact: these were brief notes on various subjects. Those 
here referred to were in six books, attributed sometimes to Aristotle, some- 
times to Theophrastus. — pépohovrat, x. 7. \.: an unjust criticism ; see on 
v. 899. —-mpotrecetv, burst. — eloBodh, opening verse. — emeepyacta, fur- 
ther development of the thought. — TipaxiSas, a glossographer and com- 
mentator of uncertain time ; his remark is wrong; see on v. 3. —“Opnpos: 
Odys. ¢, 264. 


90 MEDEA. 


HypotueEsis Seconp. — Aristophanes of Byzantium, the famous Alex- 
andrine scholar and librarian (about 200 B. c.), busied himself especially 
with the criticism of the poets. We possess many such brief notices of his 
on plays. The didascaliae, or statements as to date of representation, ete., 
were collected from the Athenian choregic inscriptions which commemo- 
rated the dramatic contests. — map’ od8etépw, x. 7. \.: that is, neither 
Aeschylus nor Sophocles composed a play on the same subject. — mpa- 
Tos (jv), i. e. took the first prize. — Evdoplev, son of Aeschylus. — 0d o@- 
{erat, namely, the satyric play Theristae. It was not, he means, in the 
Alexandrine library. 





ON THE PLAY. 


The scene is in Corinth before Medea’s house. The nurse, whose speech 
opens the play, is an old slave-woman, attached, according to Greek cus- 
tom, to the person of her mistress for life, having been her attendant in 
childhood and her companion in flight from her father’s house. She comes 
upon the stage from out the house. The prologue is better managed than 
most of Euripides’ ; the nurse’s soliloquy is naturally brought about and 
discloses the situation to the hearers in an unconstrained way. 

1, 2. e@° ded’: for this formula of wishing, see GMT. § 83, 2; H. 721, 
b (fine print). — StamrdoOar: the ship is said to fly, as Hel. 147 and else- 
where its sails are called wings. — ZuprAnyabas is object of darr. The 
Symplegades or cuvdpouddes wérpar (in Homer wAayxrat) are fabulous rocks 
believed to close together and crush ships which attempted to pass between 
them. Homer thinks of them as somewhere in the west, but later they 
were identified with two rocks at the mouth of the Bosporus, where it 
opens into the Euxine. xvdveae is their standing epithet, so that they are 
even called ai xudveac outright. 

3. There is no hysteron proteron in this passage ; the nurse says, ‘Would 
that the ship had never sailed, — nay, had never even been built.’ 

4. éperpaoat: this verb occurs nowhere else in classic Greek. Hesy- 
chius explains it by kwma:s apudcat. The subject is still reven. And 
would that it had never equipped with oars the hands of those noblest men. 
The pine is thought of as furnishing material for oars as well as for ship. 

6 flg. TleAtq: dat. of advantage, for Pelias. — Séomow thy Madea: 
these words make it clear to the spectators who the speaker is. — wtpyous : 
the place whither ; H. 551; G. § 162. — Bupov éxrdayetora, cruzed in heart ; 
éxrAjoow of an overpowering passion such as deprives of self-control. 

11 fig. A singular case of attraction. mroAvrav (for moXirais) takes the — 


NOTES. 91 


case of dy. The reason is that guy7 belongs not to avddvovca but to adi- 
kero, So that the relative clause really begins with gvy7, and rodrGv is 
inside of it, and therefore has to take the case of the relative; H. 809; 
G. § 154. The regular order would be dv roditav pvyp adixero xOéva, 
standing, of course, for rodras dv puyn ad. x9., pleasing the citizens to 
whose land she has come in her flight. Had the poet written oXirais, 
guy would be referred to avédvovca, and the sentence so be misunderstood. 
— dyvSdvovra pév is answered by viv 6é in 16, but there the expression is 
changed through the influence of the intervening parenthesis (14, 15); the 
idea is, ‘pleasing to be sure (uév) her adopted townsmen, and doing all 
she can to maintain friendly relations with her husband, but still (dé) in- 
volved in strife from his nefarious conduct.’ 

13. aith, on her part, in opposition to Jason’s faithlessness. 

14. Hep by attraction for émep ; H. 513 c. 

16. vooei ta blAtara, the tenderest tics are failing. 

19. alovpya: Bacirever, dpyer. Hesych. The verb is found only here. 

25, 26. cvvtyKovea Saxptors, dissolving it (cGua) in tears. Others 
construe cuvtnKovca xpovoy, justifying it by rHKee Biorny, 141, which, how- 
ever, is hardly parallel. — éwel means here ever since. — jSuenpeévy : sup- 
plementary participle ; H. 799; GMT. § 113. 

30. Hv pH Tore may be rendered except when. 

33. atipdoas éxe, nearly = 7riuaxey, but with the idea of present con- 
tinuance more prominent. This use of éxw with aor. partic. (GMT. § 112, 
2, Note 7; H. 797) is a favorite one with Sophocles and Euripides, but is 
probably not found in Aeschylus. 

35. Grrodelrer Oar is passive; to be bereft. ph aod. joined by synizesis. 

37. véov = xaxdy, as often. 

38. Bapeta, resentful, 

40-43. The two first of these verses are plainly interpolated from 379 
fig.; the others might be retained (reading uy for #) but that rvpavvov is 
awkward and obscure. If the princess is meant, there should be some 
designation of the gender. 

45. xaddlviuxoy means victory, or the honors of victory ; so 76 kaXdicKov 
is used Pind. Nem. 3, 17. In the absence of the article it is better to 
take it as neuter, than as masc, with orépavoy understood, as some have 
done. 

46, oS maiSes orelxovor, here come the children. For this use of dde, 
very common in the drama, see H. 678 a. — The learner should note the 
difference between tpdxos and rpoxés. 

49, The raidayuryés, who now enters with the two boys, is an aged 
family-slave of Jason’s. Wealthy Greeks, when their boys had outgrown 
the nursery, gave them into the charge of such trusty slaves, whose duty 


92 MEDEA. 


it was to attend them wherever they went. — Seomrolyns limits ofkwy xrjjua 
taken together. 

50. thvSe should be translated thus. It is similarly used in 689 below. 

52. vod may depend upon either ué6v7 or elrec Oar. 

57. The Greeks had a superstitious belief in the efficacy of confiding 
secret anxieties to the natural elements. Andromache (Andr. 91), Electra 
(Eur. El. 59, Soph. El. 89), and Creusa (Ion 885) do this. A disquieting 
dream is thus told to the air (Iph. Taur. 42) or the sun (Soph. El. 424). 

58. podrotery, as if wor, not we, had gone before. Several such places are 
found; thus Iph. Aul. 491, dd\dws ré we @deos...€l07e cvyydveay évvoov- 
névy. Cp. below 744 and note. The comic poet Philemon (Athen. vii. 
p. 288) parodied this passage thus: A cook says, 

Gof iwepos mw’ UTNAGE yp TE KOVpaYa 
Acar oddvTe TOUWoV ws EoKEvaca. 

59. ydp in questions expresses surprise. Transl. what! 

60. {ndo oe, Enviable simplicity! — peoot (schol. dxudfer), ts at its 
height, or in the middle of its course. 

61. popos: nom. of exclamation rather than of address. Medea is 
meant, “pos being used here exceptionally as adj. of two endings. This 
is a common thing with Euripides; cp. 1197 d7Xos, 1375 pddcoe. 

65. mpds yevelov: see on 709. —ovvBovdoyv, acc. of person (H. 553; 
G. § 164), the acc. of the thing being omitted. 

67. od Soxav Kdvev, pretending not to be listening. Cp. Hipp. 119, uy 
Séxer ToUTwY KkUEW. ov doxw is used like of Pnuw, deny, odk é@, forbid, ete. 

68. mercots, the gaming-place. So ol ixOis, the fish-market, ra Adxava, 
the vegetable-market, and others. The game of reocoi resembled ours of 
draughts, in that it was played on a checkered board with men (YHpor). 
There were several varieties of it. 

69. All fountains were considered sacred. The famous Pirene, after first 
welling up near the top of the Acrocorinthus into a basin with no visible 
outlet, flowed underground and reappeared in the lower town, near the 
street leading to the Lechacum, where it was adorned with handsome stone- 
work, and was a favorite place of resort. See Curtius’s Pelop. Vol. II. 
p. 528. 

72. cays, true, correct. 

73. ovd« elvar: a very exceptional use of od. The rule would require 17. 
The expression seems to be analogous to xp7 ot With infin., which is frequent 
in Eurip.; see 294, 574; Androm. 100, xp) & ovsror’ eireiy odd’ 8dB.ov 
Bporay: Hipp. 645, xpiv els yuvatxa mpdomoXov wév od repay: in cases, too, 
where it is impossible to say that od forms with the infin. a simple idea. 
The usage arose probably thus: first the od was put directly after the xp7 
for reasons of emphasis, still belonging to it (so Hipp. 507, and perhaps the 


NOTES. 93 


above passage of Androm.), then it gradually attached itself to the infin., 
and allowed itself to be separated from yp7%. 

74, 75. mado xovras is supplementary partic.; cp. 38. See GMT. § 112, 1; 
H. S00. — et wat because of the negative idea implied in the foregoing ques- 
tion: (surely he will not) even though he has, ete. 

76. xnSevpatev: H. 581; G. § 175, 2. Aelwerae expresses inferiority. 

78, 79. amwddpeorba: for the tense see GMT. § 19, N. 6. The nurse 
speaks for her mistress and the household. — mpowotcopev seems to mean 
receive in addition. A corrupt gloss of Hesychius, mpocoionaGe: mpocdé- 
tnoe, confirms this view, though we should have expected the middle. 
It is the idiom by which, roughly speaking, involuntary acts are spoken of 
as if they were voluntary. So Hipp. 831 dvaxopuifoua, am receiving on 
myself; Heracl. 296, puxnvy dicaxvaioas, lose his life. Wecklein aptly com- 
pares daoBahr\ew, lose. — nvrdnkivat : the figure is that of a boat which 
ships a fresh wave before the sailors have bailed the first one out. Cp. 
Ion 927. 

83. ddovTo pév ph: the meaning is, J will not indeed wish that he may 
perish, So Soph. Phil. 961, doo wxjrw, mpiv mado ef Kal maw yvouny 
ueroicers. In both cases the curse is on the speaker's lips, but is revoked 
at the moment of utterance. 

87. KépSovs xdpuv, fron motives of selfishness. This verse looks like an 
interpolation. 

88. e—ye = émei, seeing that; hence ov, instead of «7, is admissible. 
Jelf’s Grammar, § 744, 1. The clause depends on dpre yryvwoxecs, the idea 
being, ‘Are you just beginning, in view of Jason’s neglect, to recognize 
the self-love of men? Did you never meet with an instance of it be- 
fore ?’ 

90, 91. épnpdoas exe, keep secluded. — weddtw is transitive here and 
760, but has its ordinary intrans. sense, 101. 

93. Spacefoveay : a desiderative verb; H. 472, Rem. j. 

94, mply katackhpat tia: “ply with the infin. after negative sen- 
tences is rare in the Attic poets, but more frequent in the Attic prose.” 
Goodwin, MT. § 106, 2, N. 2. xarackyjmrrw only here takes the accus. It 
probably means, strike down as with a thunderbolt (Schol. Brayac...ofov 
Kepavv@oat) ; with dat. on the contrary, simply fadl upon. 

96, 97. Medea’s voice is heard in soliloquy within the palace. The ana- 
paests which she speaks are tinetured with Dorie forms, while those of the 
nurse are free from them. Anapaestic systems admit Dorisms only excep- 
tionally, to impart greater solemnity or pathos. — révev is causal genitive 
in exclamation (H. 592.a; G. § 173, 3) joined to an adjective, as often ; 
cep. 1028. — mas Av ddolpav, would that I might die. This form of wish 
(GMT. § 82, N. 5), not rare in tragedy, occurs again 173. 


94 MEDEA. 


98. 168’ éketvo, There it is/ literally, ‘this is that’ (spoken of before), 
A common colloquial formula, 

106 fig. It is plain that the storm-cloud of wailing, just beginning to rise, 
wil shortly dart upward with greater fury. 1 have given dvage (from 
dvacow = dvaicow), a suggestion of Elmsley’s, based on an old variant 
avgéec found in the Schol. and one Ms. The common reading, dvapei, is 
hard to explain. Some take it as active for middle, ‘will blaze forth’ 
(with lightning), but neither &mrew nor its compounds ever use the active 
in this sense. Others supply Medea as subject, ‘ihat she will light up,’ 
but this accords ill with the opening of the sentence, which shows that 
végpos is meant as subject. By reading 677 or dy\0t we might retain dva- 
yet. apxis atpdpevov = aipduevoy €& dpxjs, rising from its starting- 
point. With védos oipwyfis cp. crevayuaw végos, H. F. 1140. 

112. @ katdpartor raises : in spite of the nurse’s caution, the children, 
who here enter the house with their attendant, are espied by Medea. 

116. wot may be rendered pray. The exact sense is, ‘What share do 
you fancy that,’ etc. The nurse does not, of course, intend this for Me- 
dea’s ears. 

118. tmepadya, as implying anxiety, takes the construction of a verb of 
fearing. vaep-, exceedingly. 

119, Sava tvpdvvwy Ajpara: the nurse has Medea in mind, by no 
means Creon, as Paley thinks. Medea, as a king’s daughter, may be 
called a rvépavvos. For the sentiment the Schol. compares I]. a, 80 fig. 

122, 123. yap may be justified by supplying the thought, ‘All this I 
disapprove,’ implied in the tone of the preceding sentence. Meanwhile, 
one might translate, The fact is. See, however, on 573. — é’ toot, on 
a footing of equality with one’s fellow-citizens, as in a democracy. To live 
thus, the nurse says, is better than to be a king. A like sentiment Ion 
621, Iph. A. 16. — peyddws: not to be understood of regal state, which is 
entirely deprecated, but of a less dangerous magnificence, the sense being, 
‘securely at least, even at the expense of all grandeur.’ 

125-130. Construe rotvopa vik eltety, the name is a better one to speck, 
Notice mpora pév—re in correlation; so below, 232, 1101 (ep. 429). — 
A@ora (€o71): subject is 7a wérpia understood. — ta 8’ brepBdddovta, 
k. T. r., what exceeds due bounds avails no wholesome thing to mortals. 
‘undev dyav’ is the mainspring of Grecian ethics. All excess is tBpes, 
which the gods punish by sending dry. — améSoxev: gnomic aorist ; 
H. 707; GMT. § 30. Its subject is still 7a vrepBaddovra. 

131. The chorus of Corinthian women now appears in the orchestra and 
sings the Parodos, which consists of four parts, — prodde, strophe, anti- 
strophe, and epode, — separated from each other by anapaests of Medea 
and the nurse. 


NOTES. 95 


134. én’ dpditvdov, x. 7. X.: the meaning of these words is doubtful. 
They are, I think, best taken thus, Z heard a cry near the doorway within 
the house ; the chorus inferring Medea’s nearness to the door from the dis- 
tinctness of her voice. éwi as Heracl. 239, €¢ o&. Other ways are pos- 
sible: 1. Being near the porch (Medea’s) I heard a cry within the house. 
But the chorus has just arrived and was not ‘near the porch’ when Medea 
last spoke, 111. 2. Being near (my own) doorway I heard a cry in 
(Medea’s) house. So Wecklein. 3. Joining dud. pedaé., being near the 
double-doored house, I heard a cry within. So Elmsley, Paley, Klotz. 
To this the same objection applies as to 1, and the position of éow is, be- 
sides, unfavorable. 4. J heard a cry inside, in the double-doored house ; 
émi as in én’ olkjpuaros, etc., but this use belongs rather to later prose. dqu- 
pimvdos occurs only here. Klotz and Paley, taking it adjectively, refer it 
to the outer and inner door (atAecos and wéravdos), but the word as applied 
to a house can only mean having a door on both sides. But as a substan- 
tive 7d dudirudov can mean doorway or vestibule ; cp. dupidvpov, Theocr. 
xiv. 42, and Schol. Il. w, 323, ‘‘ Kuspioe 6€ macrada aupidupov, Lixedol 
dé Thy avrevoy Pipay”; also mpddupov. — ow, as often, is for évrds, without 
any idea of motion. 

136. cuvydopar for rejoicing at misfortunes is rare, but Hippol. 1286, ré 
Tddas Toicde cuvjdec; cp. Rhes. 958. 

138, émel---Kéxpavrat, since it (the household, especially Medea, see v. 11) 
has endeared itself to me. xéxpavrat (sing.) from Kpaivw. 

139. Sdpor, house, i. e. family. — 7r45¢, all that. 

142. otSty wap. dpéva, nothing comforted at heart. 

147. Brordv, object of xaradvoaiuav. The same expression, frag. 984, 
Kata\voapévous Biov; the active Suppl. 1004, karadvcovea Biorov. — mpo- 
Avrovea (aii). 

149. axav (= 7x7) is a correction of Nauck, after Elmsley. The Mss. 
have laxdy, but the tragedians, so far as can be made out, use the second 
syllable of éax7 always long. 

151-153, tls col more, x. 7. X.: What longing for that dread resting- 
place (the grave) would fain hasten for thee the final issue of death ? 
amAatov is due to Elmsley, the Mss. having drAdorov or dmA\jorov ; some 
retain the latter, understanding xoiras of the marriage-bed. The future 
omevoe, expresses present intention or will: GMT. § 25, 1, N. 6; Kiihner, 
Ausf. Gramm. § 387, 4. Yet it is rather oddly used, and there is some 
probability in Weil’s conjecture, who reads omevce: Oavdrou TedevTd, aS a 
separate sentence: ‘death will of itself come quickly enough.’ On @ava- 
tov teXevtay see H. 561; G. § 167, Note. 

154. pyndév = undauds. Not a common use. Androm. 88 and 463; 
Ar. Ran. 4385; Aesch, Ag. 14388. 


96 MEDEA. 


157. Be not exasperated with him for this. +é8€ is properly the cognate 
accus., H. 547 c; G. § 159, N. 2. Elmsley takes it as ¢hus, which, how- 
ever, will not do in wy woe rdde xwWeo, Od. € 215, Y 213. See lexicon for 
the literal meaning of xapaocecOa. 

160 fig. Themis, as goddess of divine justice, is appealed to for redress 
of wrongs, as Soph. Elec. 1064. Hence she is called evxraia below, 169, 
aud ixecia, Aesch. Suppl. 860. Artemis is the special protectress of females, 
so naturally invoked by them, as Soph. Elec. 626, 1238; Aesch. Suppl. 
1031; Eur. Phoen, 152, 191. — 8pkots év8noapéva, namely, when she con- 
sented to leave her home with him. 

164, 165. adbrois pedaOpors: H. 604 end; G. § 188, 5, Note. — mpdobev 
adikety: ‘the Greck idea was, that to begin the wrong, brdpyew déuxias, 
involved the entire guilt, any retaliation being then lawful. Cf. 1372.” 
(Paley.) mpécGev may be rendered waprovoked. 

166, 167. amevaoOyv: from drovaiw; aisxps goes with it. — kaory, 
Apsyrtus ; see Introduction, § 11, and note on v. 1334. 

169. Zhva: whereas Medea, 160, has not invoked Zeus, This has 
troubled many commentators, ancient and modern. But Zeus épxcos, the 
guardian of oaths, would be the first deity on whom Medea would naturally 
call; and we may suppose that in her previous outbursts (see v. 21) she 
has called upon him, and that the nurse forgets what particular divinities 
she has just appealed to. If an emendation is necessary, that of Nauck, 
Znvos for Ziva 0 (cp. 208, and note), is easy. 

171. vy tive puxpo, with (the commission of) any trifling deed. 

173. mas dv, x. T. d., as 97. 

176. et mws, H. 830 at end; somewhat differently GMT. § 538, N. 2, — 
BaptOupos is salen, opposed to d&0Ouuos, quick-tempered, timpetuous. 

178. Td mpdOvpov = mpofuyia, G. § 139, 2; H. 496, 6th ex. 

181. pita Kai 7a8’ aida, sc. elvar. rdde = quads, more exactly our 
party ; so Aesch. Pers. 1. The meaning is, say too that we are her friends. 

182. ometoaca is Wecklein’s emendation (who, however, gives te ply). 
— The subject of kak@oat, Medea, has to be understood. 

184. el, as fo whether ; a simple indirect question after an expression of 
fearing; GMT. § 46, Note 6 (c) Here and Heracl. 791 it stands for un 
ov, but Andr. 61 for 7. 

186. pox Gov xdpiv tHvSe means the favor of this trouble, as it were wm. xX. 
Totde. — emidacw, will grant frecly, beyond my obligations. 

187. S€pypa: cognate ace. with droravpotra:, as if with dépxerac. 

190 flg. The tenor of the following passage is that music might, if rightly 
employed, be made a comfort in grief, whereas it is only used to heighten. 
needlessly the merriment of feasts. 

192 fig. The correlative of pév is dé, 195. — dxods = dxpoduara, 


NOTES. OF 


197. é dv refers to N’ras. — Bdvaron, violent deaths. 

200-203. tva, where. — telvovor (ulicr tu long-drawn strains) of the 
physical act of singing. — 7d Twapby TAnsopa together. mAnpwua, physical 
satisfaction. The sense: ‘feasts are merry cnough without the aid of 
song.’ — The nurse here enters the house. 

205 fig. Take Avyupé adverbially (or rather as predicate adj. of effect, = 
Gore \uyupa eivat).  poyepa belongs with déyea, and the phrase &xea Boa, 
as containing a simple idea (= Opyvet), governs the accus. Tdv...kaxdvungor. 
And loudly eryiny forth her grievous woes she complains of the false bride- 
groom, ete. Such constructions, in which a verb and accus., taken to- 
gether, govern a second accusative, are not infrequent in tragedy. Soph. 
Elec. 124, rdxers oluwyay Tov “Ayauéuvova ; Bacch. 1289, 7d péddov Kapdia 
anon exe. 

208. tav Znvos O€uiv, Zeus’ own Themis; that is, his wdpedpos (Pind. 
Ol. 8, 27), and inseparable companion. So O€uis Acds kdapiov, Aesch. 
Suppl. 860. She is here said to have led Medea into Greece, the idea being 
that Medea went in reliance on Themis as guardian of the oaths of Jason. 

211 flg. 80 GdAa vixtov, over the sew in the niyht. — wévrov Kr7Sa: the 
strait of the Bosporus ; called a&trépavros, tinpeietrable, because of the Sym- 
plegades which guard it. daépayros has this meaning Aesch. Prom. 153 
and 1078 ; elsewhere it means endless. Some give it the latter sense here, 
justifying it by Homer's "Ed\jorortos dreipwr, I]. » 545. Both meanings 
of amrépavros arise naturally, since mepaiyw means either pass through or go 
through with. 

214. Medea appears on the stage. 

215 fle. A difficuit passage. Probably the following interpretation 
(Seidler’s) is the right one: [know many haughty men, some from personal 
acquaintance (dupatwv dao), others who are strangers ; and these (namely, 
both the above classes, all the cepvot) from their reserved deineanor have got 
an evil name and a reputation for indifference. This use of dm éuudror, 
with my eyes, from my own observation, is found Aesch. Ag. 987; nearly 
thesrzme Aesch. Suppl. 207, Soph. O. C. 14. év Ovpatots, winong forcign- 
ers or strangers, the usual meaning of @vpatos in Eurip. The jovyos rovs 
is one slow to make advances, not meeting one, as we say, half-way. 
(Some editors, with the Scholiast, explain rods pév...6upaios ‘some in 
retirement, others in public life.’) For x7ra@o@ac = get the reputation of, 
ep. I. T. 676, decMlay cexrnoouat, and Soph. Ant. 924. 

220. Sortis after B8po7Gv, H. 514 d, last part. 

222 — 224. Strangers especially, she says, should adapt themselves (apoo- 
xwpeiv) to their adopted land, though, to be sure, not even in citizens are 
stubbornuess and ill-breeding (aua@ia) praiseworthy. Hermann sces in 
this last verse an allusion to the demagogue Cleon, The aorist yweoa and 


98 MEDEA. 


some others are used to denote a feeling or resolution (or the expression of 
the same) which has already arisen in the speaker's mind, where we em- 
ploy the present. GMT. § 19, N. 5; H. 709. 

226. uxt Srépbapke, has broken my heart. 

228. év d...rdvra, for he with whom my all rested. — yyvooxes : the 
Mss. have yeyvaoxew, due, as the Schol. expressly says, to the actors, who 
misconceived the sense. ‘yeyywoxw and yeyrwoxec have also been conjec- 
tured. 

231. urdy, like our creature, in a depreciatory sense. 

232 fig. mpara pév answered by te: (‘first buy the husband, then serve 
him") unless, indeed, the correlative is 235 flg. — xpnpdrev imepBodg : 
rightly explained by Paley, ‘by outbidding others in the offer of a wealthy 
dower.” Cp. Andr, 289, drepBodals oywr Svogppivuw, vying with each other 
in hard words. brepBadddew means outbid. Euripides has transferred the 
usage of his own time to the heroie age, in which the custom was quite the 
reverse, the suitor bidding for and buying, as it were, his wife. — rotro, 
7d Seomérnv NaBeiv. For the expression cp. Soph. O. T. 13865, rpecBurepov 
ere Kaxod Kakdv, an evil worse than evil. 

235 flg. ayy, risk. — By ataddayal is meant the drddecyus or formal 
separation from the husband, attainable to a woman only through a diffi- 
cult process at law, and looked upon at best as scandalous. The husband, 
on the contrary, might repudiate (amoréurew) his wife at pleasure. Here, 
again, Eurip. has Athenian institutions in mind. 

238-240. The sense: ‘a woman who has come by marriage into a -for- 
eign land has need (in order to live happily) of supernatural foresight, if 
she has learned nothing from her relatives as to the disposition of him who 
is to be her husband.’ This is the best that can be made of the Mss, 
reading. 8tw is equivalent to ofy. Not the difficulty of selecting a hus- 
band is meant (for that is not compatible with the tense of ag@cynévnv), but 
that of living agreeably with him afterwards. And to make this meaning 
plainer some alter the last line, reading 6 
Xpncerat. 

241, 242. ed goes with éxrovovpévacow. — Bla, restive/y, like an intract- 
able horse. 

245. travoe: cnomie aor. See on 130, 

247. mpds play puxnv: 7)” Tov dvdpds, Schol. Athenian custom con- 
fined women strictly to their homes. BdAérev implies devotion ; ep. Ton 
614, els dduapra oy Brérys, and Andr. 179. 

250. kakas dpovotvres: syntactically with Aéyovo., yet standing by 
itself; wrongly though. Just so Heracl. 55. 

252. GAN od yap, but (enough said, for)...not ; H. 870 d. — Hee, ap- 


plies, 


mws for 6rw, or xapicerae for 


NOTES. og 


258. peBopploacbar, (with whom) to seek a haven of refuge from, ete. 
Properly, tv change moorings away from something. 

259. toodvSe: observe the rather unusual accus. of the thing with rvy- 
xavew: cp. Phoen. 1666, od yap av rixos Trade. — BovAjoopar for BovAouat: 
the idea of the future fulfilment of the wish is in the speaker’s mind and 
tries so to find expression. Just so Soph. Aj. 680, O. T. 1077, O. C. 
1289. 

261, wéow Siknv: the construction is unusual, but right ; rivec@al twa 
dixny strictly means cause a man to pay a penalty. 

262. H te = éxeivny re H. The Mss. have #v re, which cannot be satis- 
factorily explained. A man is said yaue twa, a woman yapeloOai rium, 
but what can yauetoOai rwa mean? As a case of attraction, Wy Te is not 
justifiable, for in such places the nom. is invariably retained ; see v. 515, 
Ale. 838 orvyav uév @ mw Erexrev, Or. 1165, lon 669. Of other explanations 
the only one at all tenable is Hermann’s, who thinks yauetodae properly a 
causative middle, to get (one’s self or another) murried, and that yauotuac 
thy Ovyarépa can be said like didacKxouar Tov watéa. He would then render, 
‘and her whom he (Creon) has given him to wife.’ But, as no similar 
example can be found except it be IL « 394 (and even this is not quite 
parallel) this use remains, for Attic, more than doubtful.  Elinsley first 
gave 7 Te. 

263, 264. The proper correlative of réAXa pév is bray dé below. See on 
413. — és adxy and oid. eloopay, two separate modifiers of kaxy. 

271, 272. Creon appears with attendants (éradoi, 335). — elrov, I com- 
mend (finally, as something already resolved on), see on qveca, 223. 

278, 279. «kddw are reefing-ropes ; so éuévat Kddws = shihe out reefs, 
set satl (= doar wéda, Hee. 1020), ep. Tro. 94, H. F. 837. The figure 
is that of one ship pursuing another. — ebrpdrocrtos exBacrts, cecessible 
landing-place. mpocpépec Oar is used of putting in to shore, Xen. Cyr. 5, 4, 6. 

284, cupBdrrerar.. Seiparos, many circumstances contribute to this fear, 
literally, contribute (a part) of this fear, H. 574 e; G. $170. In the next 
line explanatory asyndeton ; H. 854. 

288. tov SdvtTa, x. 7. . Medea’s own words, as reported to Creon. 

293. 8dta, my reputation, for cogia. — 294. xpx 8 ova00’: sce on 73. 

295. ex8i8acKkerBat, hve instructed, causative middle; H. 689 b; 
G. § 199, Note 2. — wodots: predicate adj. of effect, = ware copods etvac : 
ep. Elec. 376, diddacKer 5° dvdpa...xaxdv. The thought of the following 
verses was suggested by the poet’s own experience. See Introd. § 1, 

296. ywpls...dpyias, fur, aside from the charge of sloth which they have 
to bear besides. yew apryiav is said like xrdo@ac padvuiav, 217. This idio- 
matic use of d\dos, on the other hand, besides, is well known. H, 588 e 
(end), So Ton 161, GAdos...cdxvos, @ swan besides. 


100 MEDEA. 


304. Interpolated from 808. 

308. wore...€fap. depends on &6° eer por. 

314, 315. kal yap has not its usual force here, but caf = kaimep and 
goes with 7duxnuevoe. —FStxnpévor: when a woman speaks of herself in the 
plural, she uses masculine, not feminine forms ; H. 518 d. — kpecodver: 
Hy 58 bends 4G. $2175,22: 

316, 317. elow dpevav with Bovde’ins. — Bovdredys, lest you are devising. 
In strictness, the pres. subj. in such cases refers not to a present act, but 
the future disclosure of a present act (‘lest it may turn out that you are 
now plotting’), so that the rule (GMT. §§ 12 and 20) that the subjunctive 
in final and object clauses refers to the future, still holds good. The Mss. 
here have Bovrevoys, which could be retained only by translating, ‘lest 
you may (prove to) have plotted.’ This use of aor. subj. is Homeric (Il. a 
555, x 97), but I know of no Attic example. The correction is Elmsley’s. 

319, 320. ws 8’ attws, wid just sv. This adverb is often written airws, 
but wrongly. It comes from avrés, with changed accent, not from odvos. 
ws atrws (woavTws) is simply the ablative of 6 adrés. — dvddooey, to heey 
wutch of, not quite the same as puAdoceo Oat. 

322. Gpape: perf. of apapicxw. Do not confuse this perf. épapa with 
the 2d aor. dpdpov, Apzpov. The former is intrans., the latter transitive. 

324. mpds oe yovdtwv, sc. ixeredw. In adjurations, ce is commonly 
placed between apés and its genitive (so per te deos oro), and often the 
verb which governs it is left out. Cp. Alc. 275, wip mpds ce Gedy TANS Me 
mpododva. H. 885. On yovdrwy see note on 709. Medea clings to Creon 
in the attitude of a suppliant here and again 336. 

329. (Well do you speak of country) for to ime at least ‘tis fur the most 
precious thing I have, save only my children. Meaning that the safety of 
both requires Medea’s banishment. — €sovye in opposition to Medea; he 
really loves his country, he means, and is not minded to betray it, as 
Medea has hers. 

331. That, [ fancy, is just as circumstances come about. S6tws is here a 
simple relative, and so takes dv; GMT. § 62. —«al emphasizes rvxai 
(‘circumstances to influence the matter’). 

334. (Your troubles forsooth !) ’Tis [who am in trouble, and tn trouble 
enough, too. For the two meanings of the perf. xéxpnwae see lexicon, and — 
cp. 347. The last part of this verse is added simply for fulness, according 
to the idiom of confirming a statement by denying its opposite, as Avmpov 
Oéaua xod pirov, Tro. 1157. Others explain, ‘I have no need of other 
troubles, and so cannot reHeve you of yours,’ in answer to the words amda\- 
aLov mévwy, as if Creon had asked her to take his troubles on her own 
shoulders. This involves a sort of grim witticism, and seems rather 
trifling. 


NOTES. 101 


336. adAd, nay rather. Cp. Hel. 939, un dia, mapOér’, adXdd o’ ixeredw 
7 O0e. 

338. TotrTo: 76 un pevyew. 

341-343. povri8’, accus., not dative.— 4, qua; in what direction and 
so whither. — apopphy, resources, means, properly a starting-point. The 
meaning, place of safety (Lidd. & Scott), is wrong. — ov8v mpotipa, does 
not at all care or think it worth while. 

346. eb hevéovpeba : GMT. § 56. 

349. The perf. Siép8epa is always transitive (= déPOapxa) in Attic poets. 

350. éapaptavev: sce on jdcKyuévn, 26. 

356. Spdcats, the best Mss., which without dy is, of course, a solecism. 
Others dpdcecs. But these two verses are in all likelihood interpolated ; 
the words \éNex7au...6d€ mark the end of the speech. Creon here departs. 

358, pedéa...dx€wv: sce on 96. 

359 flg. I give with Kirchhoff the reading of the best Mss. Take tiva 
with cwrjpa; what savior through hospitality...2 Sédpov and x@dva are 
appositives. mpos eviav adverbially, like mpos Biav, rpos piNiav, strictly 
conformably to, or in the way of hospitality ; with cwrjpa as with a verb 
(‘whom to save you in hosp.’), cp. on 479. It must be confessed, how- 
ever, that this is hard, and that probably éfevpjcecs is to be bracketed with 
Weckl., riva then going with eviav. The easier reading pogeviay rests on 
slender authority. 

361. kAv8eva Kakov: a frequent metaphor; Suppl. 824, H. F. 1087, 
Hipp. 822, Aesch. Pers. 599. 

365. GAN otte...trw, Lut things are not yct come to that pass, don’t think 
it. That mw belongs not with “7 doxeire, but the preceding, is seen from 
Arist. Eq. 843, Aesch. Prom. 511, where the same idiom oceurs. The 
confused order here heightens the intensity. 

367. roto. kndevoaow: Creon is meant. 

370. otS€—ovdé, not eren—nor. — xepotv, dative, with my hands. If 
genitive, the sing. yepds would have been used. See note ou 709. 

372, 373. édetv, thurart. — adikev, has left me fice to remain. dadinue 
is not often so used with infinitive (except it be of a verb of motion, Soph. 
Phil. 1349), but Plat. Legg. 7, 806 ¢, 75 O7Xv...dgiévra tpvpay ; and ibid. 
aeRO OU es 

382. tmepBalvovea, said of passing the threshold, here in exteriay (so 
brep8ar av rvX\as, Alc. 829), but Ion 514, in coming out. 

384, 385. xpatiota: H. 518 a. — thy etOctav (664v), adverbial. — wed. 
copal, namely, we wonen, the sex in general. Elmsley conjectured coot, 
so as to mean Medea herself: see on 314. But poison was a recognized 
woman’s weapon ; see Ton 616, 845, and frag. 467. 

536. Kal 84 TeBvact, suppuse now they are dead. Cp. 1107. 


102 MEDEA. 


389. mipyos: metaphorical. 

391. But if a fate devoid of all resource decree my exile. 

393. ToApNS TO KapTEpoY, the heiyht of daring. 

396. Medea has an image of Hecate, patroness of witchcraft, in her 
house. Such private shrines, ‘Exa7aca, were common at Athens. 

398 fig. The yduoe will be bitter to bride and bridegroom, the xjdos and 
gvyai to Creon. 

400. pndév is, of course, adverbial. Cp. Soph. El. 716, peidovro xévrpwr © 
ovdév, also Aj. 115, Eur. Hec. 1044, H. F. 1400. 

404, trois Diovdelots, k. 7. A.: from the Sisypheans and from Jason's 
bride, The dative with d@doxdvw denotes the person from whom or in 
whose mind anything is incurred. Lict’@ecoe is a contemptuous name for 
the Corinthians, from Sisyphus, their ancient king, who was xépédicros av- 
dpav (IL. ¢ 153), and otherwise in ill repute. Creon especially is meant, 
Wedlock is put for the bride, as Andr. 103, (Others, joining 3. and yau., 
explain ‘from the marriage of Sisyphus’s descendunt und Jason,’ as dat. 
of cause, I suppose. But the second ro?s forbids this ; moreover, the con- 
text requires dat. of the person whose laughter is feared. Probably, how- 
ever, we should read roto’ for rots 7: ‘from this Sisyphean bride of 
Jason's.’ ) 

405. twatpds: Acctes, son of Helios. Od. x 138, dugw (Acetes and Circe) 
O° éxyeyarny paeoiu3psrov ’HeXiovo. 

406. émloracat: referring back to 400, —mpds 8 Kal med. yuvatkes, 
and, besides, we (1 and the rest of my sex) are women. 

410. Medea remains on the stage during the choral song, the burden of 
which is: (1) The infidelity of men; men will, the chorus says, henee- 
forth have that name for faithlessness which hitherto has been borne by 
women. (2) The forlorn condition of Medea. — &vw morapay, x. 7. X.: 
“Rivers flowing backward” was a proverbial expression for whatever hap- 
pens contrary to the ordinary course of things. — teeev: all rivers are 
sacred. 

413 flg. av8Spaor pév is answered hy ray 5 éuav, not Gedy éé. The first 
6é is only continuative, or at most but slightly adversative. Just so 263 fig. 
It is a question whether we ought to read re in such cases. — Oe@v mlotis, 
Jaith plighted in the sight of the gods. (Paley.) — tav 8’...dapar, report 
will bring about a change to my (that is ours, women’s) life, so that it 
shall have a good reputation. 

421 fig. potoat mad. doSay, the strains of ancient lays. — tpvetoar = 
vuvotca. This kind of contraction is rare in tragedy: Hipp. 167 direvy, 
Iph. A. 789 wvOetoa. tuvety has a bad sense here, as not unfrequently. 
Eurip. was thinking of passages in Homer and Hesiod, but especiall of 
the iambi of Archilochus. ‘ 


NOTES. 103 


424 fly. od yap, x. 7. X.: the sense is, ‘we women have not the poetic 
gift, or we might ourselves sing a song in answer to men.’ ‘yap is used in 
anticipation of the following sentence, the idea being, ‘for a song might 
easily be sung, though I cannot myself sing it.’ — advraxno’ dv, would 
(proceed to) sing. See on 1351. —@mace Béomy dodav: Homeric ; Odyss. 
6 498. 

428 fig. paxpos 8’ aldy, x. 7. \.: a long life (the experience of a long 
life) has (i. e. can furnish) much to say about..., etc. —pév—re: see on 125. 
—poipay, mutual relations, properly part or share in life in relation to 
one another. 

431 fig. matpwos shortens the penult often in Eurip., only, however, in 
lyrical passages or anapaests. Many critics distrust the Mss. and would 
restore matpcos everywhere. 





dpicaca, parting, passing between. (Others, 
passing the limits of, as in Aesch. Suppl. 544, yatay opife, but this sense 
seems natural only with yalay, rod\w, and the like.) 

436. Koitas Aéxtpov: a common pleonasm; Hipp. 154, kolra Nexéwr, 
Iph. T. 857, kdwia A€xrpwv, Alc, 925, H. F. 798, Soph. Ant. 425, Aesch. 
Pers. 543. 

439. xadpts, reverence. 


442 fig. peBopplcar@ar, as 258. — mapa = mapecw. — tov 8...éra- 
véora, but another princess, more potent (to charm) than that couch of thine, 
has risen up against thy household, — otre—8€ instead of otre—re, by a 


slight anacoluthon ; cp. H. 855 b: so Soph. Trach. 1151, ofre yarnp... 
maidwy dé, and elsewhere. 

446. od viv, k. 7. X.: cp. 292. 

451, 452. kdpot piv, x. 7. A.: for myself indeed I care not; go on for- 
ever, if you choose, saying that..., ete. —’Idewv outside its clause, yet 
retained in the nomin.; cp. Bacch. 173, irw rus, eloayyedde Tetpecias dre 
Onret vu. 

453, 454. tvpavvous, the royal family. — wav KépSos, clear gain. — 
duyq, with exile only, and not rather with death, 

456. adypouv: impf. of attempted action. 

459, 460. kak tavde, even after this. — ro cov 8% mpook. in opposition 
to amrepykas: not having failed my friends, but, on the contrary, provid- 
tng for thy interests. dmreuretv (arrayopetw, admavd@) is construed with the 
dative in two ways. (1) Dat. of disadv.; flag, or give out in serving ; as 
amavdav pidows, decsse amicis, Andr. 87; and in this place. (2) Dat. of 
cause 3 sink under, give out ii; so admewmety Kaxots, dyer, movors, Or. 91, 
Hec. 942, Ale. 487. In both these cases the verb has its meaning of tire, 
flag. Quite distinct is (3) its use with accus., meaning renounce, disown ; 
aren. mévous, écriavy, Suppl. 848, H. F. 1854, Ale. 737 ; and, furthermore, 
(4) the meaning forbid. 


104 MEDEA. 


463. kal yap el, for cven if; cai going with ed, and yap referring to fKw 
above, the intermediate sentence being parenthetic. 

465 fig. totro yap, x. 7. d.: for this (the term mayxdkiote) is the bitter- 
est reproach for thy unmantiness which I cun utter in language (yAwoon), 
though I feel yet deeper scorn in my heart. 

468. Interpolated from 1324. 

469. Opacos in a good sense, = Odpaos. 

474. Kakas goes with cd\vwv as well as AéEaca, The student will remem- 
ber that xax@s crvew (axovewv) is passive of kaxds Néyerv. 

476. A noteworthy example of Euripidean sigmatism, a trait ridiculed 
by the comic poets. Cp. 380, 404, 1217, and for other alliterations 323, 340. 

479. tebydatov: dative of means with émicrdrq as if with a verb (ém- 
oratotvra). — Savac. yonv: see Introd. § 11. 

482. xtelvaoa: by proxy. She put the dragon to sleep by her enchant- 
ments, and so enabled Jason to kill it. Similarly just below, 486, amék- 
teva. H. 686. — dvéoxov, x. 7. A. held up for you a torch of safety. 
(Wecklein, however: rose on you as a guiding star.) 

485. mpd0vupos paddAov = mpoduuorépa. For the second comparative 
codwtépa see H. 660 b. 

490, 491. Childlessness of a wife was held to justify her divorce and the 
taking of another. — wvyyvwortd : see on Kpdricta, 3884. The best Mss. 
cvyyvwor ov iv, Which some defend on the principle of xpiy, efkos Fv, ete. 
(GMT. § 49, 2, N. 3). But these imperfects are regularly used without ay 
only when the necessity or propriety is not met by the fucts. In the pres- 
ent case cuyyvwarov Fv Would mean, ‘you would be justified in doing what 
you are now not doing,’ but cvyyvwor’ av Fv, ‘you would be justified in 
doing what you are now not justified in doing.’ Of course, the latter is 
the meaning here. Infractions of this usage are found, it is true, but they 
are rare. Moreover, cvyyrior ay Fv is certain Elec. 1026 in an exactly 
similar passage. 

493, 494. 4—# in indirect disjunctive questions, after Homeric fashion, 
occurs in a few passages of the tragie poets. Many discredit it, and sub- 
stitute ei—j. — Oeopa: heterogeneous plural of @ecuss, only here and 
Soph. frag. 90. 

497. tav8e yovatwv: genitive instead of nominat., because the speaker 
has éhayBdvou in her mind. — kexp@opeba refers to the clasping both of 
hands and knees when Jason was a suppiant for her favor. See on 709. 

500. Soxotca pév Th...... dpws 8€, capecting what good office from you, 
forsooth 2? (None, of course.) S#i/d I will do it. 

503. ots...kal matpav : cp. 163. — adikdpny, came hither. 

506 tle. ot otkobev iro are Aindred, friends by natural relationship. 
Cp. Andr. 979, réxaus Tats otkodev, dunestic calamities ; Pind. Pyth. 8. 72, 


NOTES. 105 


70 olkodev, his family tics; Troad. 963, rd otkodev xetva, those natural en- 
dowments ; Troad, 648, 371. — ots 8é, Pelias’s family. — odk éxpfy, not 
ought not, but had no need, no motive. 

509. modAats pakaplay, happy in the view of (H. 601 end) many women, 
i.e. envied by them. Said with bitter irony, in remembrance of former 
promises of Jason. 

512. e&—ye as 88. 

515. tre = cal eué 7. 

516 flg. 8s: dv is omitted ; GMT. § 63, 1. (b). — rexpypta: the touch- 
stone, Bdcavos, is meant. The same sentiment, Hipp. 925. 

523, This verse is borrowed from Aesch. Theb. 62. — dere = worep, 
not rare in tragedy, see 1200, 1213. 

524, &kporot Aalpouvs KpacréSots, i.e. with furled sails. Medea’s 
ywooodyla is likened to a sudden gale. 

526. kat emphasizes, not Mav merely, but the whole clause: since, 
moreover (besides reviling me), you exaggerate the favors you have done me. 
Cp. Soph. Phil. 380, O. T. 412. 

529. emlpOovos for Jason, because apparently boastful. The sense : 
‘You have intelligence enough to understand, though it is invidious for 
me to relate, that it was Love that,’ etc. The antithesis (uév—é@AAa) is 
between voids and Adyos. 

532. GAN odk, «. 7. AL: but [will not undertake to settle the point with 
over-nicety ; the question, that is, to whom he owes his safety. 

533 flg. yap otv, for really. — Tis es cwrnplas, in return for saving 
me, genit. of price with AauBdavw (Orest. 502), as if it were dvriAauBavw. 

538. pr) tpds toxtos xapuy, without giving way to violence, without allow- 
ing violence its sway. Cp. H. F. 779, dvouig xdpw d.dovs. 

542 flg. xpvods and tpyfoat are parallel. — yévorro: GMT. § 34, 1 (a). 

546. &pdAav, x. 7.4. The same words Suppl. 428. 

548 fle. yeyds: supplem. partic. — wadppev, chaste, virtuous; the op- 
posite of dxparjs, tncontinent, lustful. His proof of codia, 551 flg., of 
cwppoctvn, 555 flg., of Pidla, 559 flg. — &’ Hovxos: Medea had made a 
gesture of impatience. 

554, 4 watSa yfpoat: added after rodde as explanatory of it. So Heracl. 
298. 

555. Wood kvife, the thing at which you are nettled. 

557. &pthAav todvrekvoy = duiA\av wodurexvias. A compound adjee- 
tive used for the genit. of its derivative abstract substantive ; a favorite 
Euripidean figure. So Gua PidtomwdAovtos, epis dBpdmrdovtos, Levdpovor Te- 
ual, evrexvor xpnomot (I. T. 412, 1148, 776, Ion 423): see also 1010. 

560. ytyvaokev: parallel to éy@alpwr, merd., &xwv above. 

564. els radrd, on the swme footing, making no distinction, that is, be- 


106 MEDEA. 


tween them and Medea’s children ; by this the latter would gain in con- 
sideration ; cp. 596. —In the next line, Elmsley’s conjecture, evda:uoro?- 
pev, certainly improves the sense. 

565, 566. ri Set; implies ovdév Se?, hence re—re. — wraiSwy: i. e. ‘any 
more children.’ — Ave (sc. TéA7) = AvorTedre?, as below 1112, 1362, and 
frequently in tragedy. 

573 flg. The same sentiment again, Hipp. 616 flg., at greater length. — 
Xpfv : imperf. of unfulfilled necessity ; GMT. § 49, 2, Note 3; G. § 222, 
N. 2; H. 708. — yap, the fact is. It may, like that in 122, be explained 
by assuming an ellipsis: ‘Things are not as they ought to be, for...’ 
But it must be borne in mind that ydép does not always mean for, and is 
not always a causal particle. Its original force (ye + dp) must have been 
intensive and consecutive, something like swre/y then, and the recognition of 
this accounts for many uses of yép which otherwise can only be laboriously 
explained. So particularly the yap of wishes, not only in the formula ed ydp, 
but by itself (kax@s yap é&b\o.o Cyel. 261 ; Orest. 1147 ; Hipp. 640), which 
might be roughly rendered would then indeed. And so it may be taken 
here, as xpjv is nearly the same as dPedAov. On this matter consult Klotz 
ad Devar. p. 231 flg., Baumlein’s Untersuch. iib. d. gr. Partikeln, p. 68 fig. ; 
Kiihner’s Ausf. Gramm. II. p. 724. — ov elvas: see on 73. — This speech 
of Jason’s, 522-575, is just equal in length to Medea’s, 465-519, each 
having 53 verses, excluding, of course, 468. This correspondence is com- 
mon in the argumentative parts of Eurip. plays. 

577. Tapa yvopny, contrary to your mind or wishes. 

580. épol, to my mind: see on 404. 

582 flg. yAdoon with repicredetv. — atxav, presumptuously fancying. 
— otk &yav codds: Cp. Hec. 1192, where it is said that such men are 
copol, but not dia redous copol. 

584 fig. as kal ov, x.7.. There is a slight turn in this sentence, from 
an assertion to a prohibition : As for instance you — had best not undertake 
to be, etc.; the full thought being, ‘as, for example, you are a person of 
this sort, but beware of attempting your sophistries with me.’ For @s kai 
ov cp. Andr. 703; Hipp. 651. — ékrevet: a wrestler’s phrase. 

588. rade Adyw: this argument in favor of my marrying the princess. 

591 flg. The thought is abridged ; it is in full: Jt was not that (fear of 
my anger) that restrained you (from telling me) but the consciousness that 
your real motive in deserting me was a different one, namely that your 
marriage with a foreigner was likely to prove not reputable for your old age ; 
i.e. if continued through life. 

594, 595. yfpat: infin. after oféa instead of participle. This occurs 
only with tcf, chiefly after the phrase ed 746’ f¢&, seldom elsewhere (Soph. 
Ant. 473, Phil. 1329). — Aéxrpa Baroy, the royal bride. Baciéwy is 


NOTES. 107 


generalizing plural ; of a royal personage, of royalty. The Ms. reading 
A. Baorkéws could only mean a king’s wife. The correction is Elmsley’s. 
— b&ev : as if éynua had preceded. 

598, 599. Let me not have prosperity which shall be galling, nor wealth 
which shall vex my soul ; such as that must be which Jason claims to have 
provided for her. —kvttov: GMT. § 64, 1. 

600. ofc 8’ as...pavet; equivalent to olcd’ ws pereviauévn copwrépa pave ; 
since werevtec is in thought subordinate to davee. 

606. yapotoa, by taking another wife, as you did ? 

608. apatla, a curse, curse-bringing. A dark threat. dpatos has this 
sense Hipp. 1415, Iph. T. 778, and elsewhere. 

609. #s with future indic. at the beginning of a speech, expressive of 
firm resolution ; an Euripidean idiom. Sometimes, as here, in opposition 
to the preceding, sometimes in vehement assent. Usually explained (ic6:) 
ws, but perhaps rather the ws is causal: ‘It is useless to talk, for—’; 
‘Have no fear about that, for—.’—xpwwotpat, litigabo, —tavbe: H. 577, 
Rem. c; G. § 173, 1, note. 

613. ovpBoda: in contracting gevia, guest and host broke a small bone 
(dorpayandos), and retained each a half, to be used thereafter as a creden- 
tial either by themselves or others whom they might send ; an interesting 
usage of the heroic age. 

617. (Sov, offer; GMT. § 11, N. 2; H. 702 end. 

619. addr’ otv: well, at any rate. 

624. Swopdtwv emis: an expression peculiar to Eurip. (Alc. 546, 
Suppl. 1038), and ridiculed by Aristophanes, Thesm. 881. 

625, 626. civ Cea 8’ eiphoerar, with leave of Heaven be it said ; a for- 
mula to avoid the appearance of presumption and consequent divine dis- 
pleasure. — dpveto Oar, will be fain to disown. 

627 flg. Jason having departed, the chorus (1) praises moderation and 
contentment in love and wedlock, and (2) bewails the lot of the homeless. 
Medea remains upon the stage. — tarép—éyay, plus nimio; as it were, ‘in 
over-excess.’ Sometimes joined trepayay. 

629 fig. mapéSwxav: gnomic aorist. The plural of aor. in -xa, Heracl. 
319; Ion, 1200; H. F. 590; Or. 1166, 1641. —dv8pdaorw = dvOpwros, as 
675. — &dts, (just enowgh and no more) in moderation, as Ale. 907. — 
Gor: GMT. § 54, 2, (a). 

633 fig. xptoéwv: xpiceos has U often in lyric passages, a license bor- 
rowed from the lyric poets. Pindar has even xptods once. — tpépw xp. : 
as with a poison. — otordy: obj. of épelns. Aphrodite appears here armed 
with Eros’ bow. 

635. orépyot, lovingly watch over, as a parent over children. 

639 fg. Gupov éxmAnfaoa: see on 8. — dwrodepous, x. 7. X., but favor- 


108 MEDEA. 


ing peaceful unions may she with keen judgment regulate the conjugal rela- 
tions of women. 

647. oixtpdétarov axéwv, pitiable from its woes; dxéwv genit. of cause, 
as with olxteipw. Cp. wolpas evdatuoves, Iph. T. 1491. 

648 fig. Bavarw...... eavicaca: rather (than live an exile) may I perish 
by death, whenever I have come to that day. This is, 1 think, the best 
understanding of this perplexing sentence. é£avdw, dviw often mean reach, 
arrive at, usually, it is true, with accus. of place ; but Tro. 595, fvya & 
qvuce SovNa, very much as here. (Others render having ended this life ; 
but 7uépa in this sense must have an adjective with it. Hermann’s ex- 
planation, moriar potius quam hune diem exegerim, according to which 
éfavicaca stands for mplv é&avicat, is untenable.) 

654, pd0ov: obj. of éxw.—dpdcacbat, to receive into my mind, to recog- 
nize the truth of. 

659, axapirtos SdotTo, may he perish gracelessly or dismally ; without 
having any xdpus, grace or favor, shown him. Jason, the author of all this 
unhappiness, occurs suddenly to mind. — &t@ mdpertiv, who can find it in 
his heart. — ka®apav (unless indeed xka@apav) poetically joined to Anda in- 
stead of dpevav: undoing the bolt of a guileless heart, disclosing frankly 
one’s real character. — dvolfavra after é7@, justified by the infin. tyway. — 
épol pév: opposition to others (4AXovs d€) is implied. 

663. Aegeus enters from the right, as coming from the harbor (682). 

668. dpdadov ys: a white stone in the nave of the Delphic temple 
was believed to mark the centre of the earth. 

669. Stws yévouto: indirect for r&s yevnrac; GMT. § 88, N. 1. 

675. kat’ dvipa: H. 660 c. —ovpS8areiv: epexegetical infin.; ‘words 
too wise for a man in respect of understanding them’; that is, too wise for 
aman to understand. Notice &vipa = d&vOpwrrov. 

676. pév (without 5’) is not unfrequent in questions. Cp. 1129. 

677. émwet to. kal: this formula means especially as. ; 

679. The scholiast gives as the current form of the oracle :— 


acKov Tov mpovyovTa T6da, wEeya hepTaTe Aawy, 


kn Avons mpiv youvoy ’APnvatwy adixég@ae * 


(so, with slight variations, Plutarch and Apollodorus), and explains its 
meaning thus: dcxod ofy ris yaorpés, 65a 5€ 7d dptov, mapdcov ws 6 Todedw 
TOO doko mpoexer Ever Obv Ure ExpNTe poe wh TUVENOEty Erépa (Eralpa, Elmsl.) 
mpv ériBnvat Tis matpioos. Medea attempts no solution of the mystery. 

682. as tl ypytev: GMT. § 109, Note 4, (a). Exactly, wader the feeling 
of what necd 2? ws is not quite meaningless. 

684. as A€yover refers to edceBéocraros. Of Pelops’ other sons, Atreus 
and Thyestes at least were not edoeBels at all. 


NOTES. 109 


688. Medea turns away as if to end the interview abruptly. Aegeus’ 
attention is thus drawn to her sorrowful appearance. 

689. 88e, thus; see on 50. 

690. Acgeus, I have, ete. 

694, ep’ Hpiv, not simply besides me, but superseding me, in authority 
over me. yapety eri tur or ervyauety Tur is used of taking a second wife 
‘over the head,’ as we might say, of some one, either the first wife or the 
children. Ale. 805, 372, Orest. 589, Herod. IV. 154. 

695. 4 mov, if right, must mean, Js i possible that—? (Really in any 
way—') But it is not elsewhere used in questions implying surprise or 
incredulity as to a statement already made, but in those containing a sug- 
gestion of the speaker’s, which he brings forward with more or less hesita- 
tion. Cp. 13808. Accordingly the conjecture ~4 wou (Weil) has much in 
its favor. 

696. mpd tot: H. 525d; G. 143, 2. 

698. péyav y epwra, namely, cpacde’s. The sense: ‘Yes, tis a new 
passion, and a mighty one, that made him desert me. Inconstaney is his 
nature.” She next explains that this passion is ambition for rank. 

699. trw = éacOw. ‘Never mind him.’ Soph. O.'T. 669, 6 5° ofv iw. 

703. qv: GMT. § 11, Note 6. 

707. émyvera: sce on 223. 

708. Adyw pev ox, Kk. 7. AL: he pretends not to, but he ts willing to be 
patient under the afiliction. This last with irony, as it were Jason’s own 
hypocritical language. She means that he is secretly glad of it. So un- 
derstood, the vulgate, which has caused some perplexity, seems to give 
good sense. 

709. Suppliants clasped the knees, grasped the right hand, or stroked 
the beard of the person supplicated. 

715. SdBros Odvors: that is, ‘may you live happy till your death.’ 

717. 8é, as often, where yap would have been in place. 

720. Qcav: the gods are the guardians of suppliauts ; Medea, in saying 
ixecla ylyvouac (710), had put herself under their protection. 

722. Hpotdds eipr, air helpless, undone, have utterly failed. Cp. Heracl. 
703. (Others, am eager ; but there is no example of such a use of @poddos.) 

724. mwepdcopat—B8ikatos adv, shill be justified in trying. According to 
Greek views of the gus gentiim it would be right for Aegeus to protect 
Medea if she fled of herself to him as a suppliant, but not to take her 
himself out of another’s dominions. 

725-728. These four lines seem to be a paraphrase of 723, 724, 729, 730, 
repeating a part of the thought in a diluted form. They seem to have been 
written as a substitute for them, by some one who thought the original 
expression obscure. Hence | have followed Kirchhoff in bracketing them. 


110 MEDEA. 


Nauck rejects 723, 724, and 729, and places 730 after 726. —o¥ oe pr 
peda: GMT. §$ 89,1; H. 845, — tue: dativus commodi. 

729. amadkdA\dooouv mdé$a: dda (or KHXov, etc.) is often joined, for greater 
vividness, to intransitive verbs of motion (Baivew, repay, érdaccew, etc.) as 
a kind of cognate accusative (as it were, wa/k a footstep) ; especially com- 
mon in Eurip.; Ale. 1153, Elec. 94, 1173, Hee. 53, 1071. 

735 fig. Join todros &youow &k yalas éué, at the bidding of these, should 
they attempt to carry ime off out of the country. éué cannot depend on pe- 
Geto, which would require a genit. The Mss. have ue@e?s, which, if right, 
would be for me@eins, a solitary instance of its kind; this shorter form 
(ueBetuer, etc.) is common enough in plural, but not in singular. dyw of 
forcible abduction. 

737 fig. are badly garbled in the Mss., which give évaporos...xdmexnpuKed- 
pace ovK dy wifoio: this makes the passage merely a repetition of the first 
part of the sentence. But plainly Adyous $€ stands in opposition to dépxtoret 
péev, and the meaning must have been, ‘but if you make an agreement in 
words merely, and not with oaths, then you will be hkely to yield to my 
enemies’ demands.’ A single hint of the original text, Kdmixnpuxeduara, is 
furnished by a scholium. | have written the passage, nearly with Nauck, 
so as to give the necded sense, without feeling at all sure that the werds 
are Euripides’. — dtdog : namely of my enemies. 

739. tadpa: nearly equivalent to éyw. Cp. Andr. 235. 

741. treEas = CderEas ev Ndyous. (Porson.) 

744 fle. Construe Sexvivat gxovra, to show that I have: ep. 548. 
éxovra (instead of @yorr.) agreeing with the omitted subject of the inf.; 
cp. on dvoigavra, 660. — 70 wov, thy interests. — €nyot Ceovs, name (prop- 
erly dictate, go over beforehand) the gods 1 am to swear hy. So éapy’ dpxor, 
Iph. T. 748, adindiister the oath, 

747. cuvrBeis, toyether, comprehensively ; yévos belongs with duvv. Cp. 
Hee. 1184; fragm. 658. Verse 748 occurs again, Iph. T. 738. 

750. &ddXos, on the other hind ; Cp. on 296. 

753, & for rov’ras & It might have been ofs. 

754, maBors = etixer radety, Opt. of wishing in a question. 

758. tvxoto’ & BotAcpat: & cither for éxewwr a, ep. 753; or like rocévée 
259. — Aegeus here departs towards the left, as going to foreign parts. 

759. mopmatos: Hermes, adept in cunning and subterfuge, guides per- 
sons through difficult enterprises and journeys: Rhes. 216; Soph. Elee. 

S052 Pino l3e > Aesen, um 90! alow; Se. 

760 fg. The coustruction is mpdgeds te (€xeiva) ov érlvorav Katéxwv 
omevdets (atrd). ‘Tdem est érivoay xatéxwv quod émuulav éxwv.”? (Elms- 
ley.) Cp. wé0ov xaréxov, Phoen. 330. 

763. Se8dxnoor: the dramatists use the tenses dox7jcw, ete., freely, espe- 


elally in choral passages. 


NOTES. 111 


766. els o5dv BeBHxapev: that is, we are no longer wandering at ran- 
dom, see our course clearly before us. 

768 fle. q, where; xa@’ 6 wépos. Schol. In the very matter, she means, 
which perplexed her most ; see 386 flg. — ékdpvopev: as a ship in dis- 
tress: ep. Aesch. Theb. 210. —Atphv: so Andr. 891 Orestes is called a 
haven. 

770 fig. mpupvatyy Kddov: the ancients moored their ships with the 
stern towards the shore. — poddvres: see on 314. — dorv, the lower town; 
Tmodtopa, the acropolis. 

773. S€xov, capect. 

778, 779. These two verses come in very awkwardly after 777. They 
were plainly written as a substitute for it, not to follow it. 

781. Auroto’ dv, Wecklein after Elmsley ; the Mss. Xurofca. The par- 
ticiple represents the optative. —The next line is suspected by many ; 
cp. 1060. 

785. pt devyav depends on the idea of entreaty implied in d@pa pépovr- 
tas. Cp. Suppl. 285, yotvaow...ityw...ragpov eLavicacba, and Heracl. 345. 





This verse (lacking in a good Ms.) is also suspected. 

790 tig. a@roadAaoow, disiniss. — dpwka: aor, as 223. Medea has now 
given up her former plan (875) of causing Jason’s death. The idea which 
has all along been dimly present to her mind has now taken definite shape ; 
she will take a more exquisite revenge by killing his children with his new 
wife, leaving him childless and without prospect of issue, to pass an old 
age of regret and remorse. -— todvredOev : cp. on rovvOévde, 1167. 

795. dvov devyovoa: the place of the murder was accursed for the 
murderer; he was obliged to flee and seek expiatory rites (ka@dpova, dyvicua) 
at the hands of some one at a distance, to be freed from blood-guiltiness 
(wiagua, aiua). 

798. The thought suddenly strikes her that her life must be rendered 
miserable by such a deed, but she dismisses it with Never mind; what 
profits me my fe in any case? trw: a formula of indifference or defiant 
resolution ; cp. 819; Heracl. 455; Orest. 7945; cp. also 699. 

802. civ 00, with Heaven's help ; ep. 625. 

814 fle. otk gory, it cannot be. — waoxovoay after col: see on 660. 

819. odv (i. e. of év) péow, intervening; ‘all that you can say mean- 
while.’ Cp. Hel. 6380; Or. 16; H. F. 94. (Or perhaps between us; ‘the 
present discussion’; ep. Hel. 944; Elec. 797.) 

820 fly. Addressed to the nurse, who has come out from the house. — 
mod, confidential matters. —Sermérats, the generalizing plural; she 
means herself. — yuvq 7 pus : so as to sympathize with another woman. 

824 flg. The first strophe and antistrophe celebrate the praises of Athens. 
After this apparent digression, the chorus returns to the matter in hand 


112 MEDEA. 


with the thought, ‘How can such a place harbor a criminal such as you 
will be,’ and appeals again to Medea to desist from her design. 

825 flg. Ocov mai&es: Erechtheus (or Erichthonius) was a son of He- 
phaestus and Gaea. — arop@qTov: so that the autochthonic race have 
always remained in possession. — The cola is thought of as a natural 
product of the country. — Aapmpotarov: the clear air of Attica was fa- 
mous, and was thought to impart vivacity and grace. 

834. ‘Appoviav must be subject to @uTedoa, not object, for nine Muses 
could not bear one daughter, That the Muses were born in Attica, and 
that Harmonia was their mother, seems to be an invention of Euripides. 
Hesiod makes them daughters of Zens and Mnemosyne, born in Pieria 
near Olympus. 

835 flg. The text is in disorder. As it stands, the goddess dips water 
from the river to infuse its coolness into the breezes she wafts over the 
land. This is perhaps endurable, but hardly the double accus. with cara- 
mvetoat (either xapas or petpiacs [atipars] would be required) ; moreover, we 
have (after rejecting atpas, impossible for metrical reasons) a gap of seven 
syllables, best placed with Kirchhoff after ywpavy, ~ —-——~- ~—. The 
lost words contained some equivalent to atipas. 

844 flg. Loves which are the companions of wisdom are chaste and tem- 
perate loves as opposed to sensual passion, including the épws Puxjjs of the 
philosophers ; see Eur. frag. 342. Such are mavtolas dpetas Evvepyol, that 
is, join with wisdom in producing every virtue. 

846 fig. The order: m&s ofy 4} mids iepav rorauav h Xwpa roumimos PlAwy 
ec ce..., etc. —lepav motapav: gen. of characteristic, H. 568. — dAev 
mopmipos, safely harboring its friends, affording them a safe refuge. In 
this sense méumos 6 daiuwv (the Dodonian Zeus), Phoen. 984. — Tay otx 
dclav per’ ddAdav, you the polluted among your fellaw-men. 

854, mwévty o Nauck for ravtes. The repetition of ce is not surprising, 

856 fle. dpevds...xetpl...kapSia re: a curious enallage ; boldness either 
of mind or in your hand and heart, —tékvoy (vocative), Nauck. But 
even thus the text is hardly sound. 

861 fle. G8axpuv...dévov, Aicp tenrless the lot of iurder, i.e ‘keep 
from weeping at the murder you are destined to commit.” The emphasis 
falls on déaxpuy = Gare ddaxpuy eivat. poipa Povov in the same sense, Elec. 
12 OU: 

864. dowiay of the effect ; ‘stain your hand red.’ 

866 fle. Kal ydp as at 314. — obrdv: ot'roe av. . 

871. trepyatopar, a rare word, seems here to have the sense of vroupyéw. 

872. 8a Adywv adikopyy: H. 620d. See on 1081. 

876, qpiv, of course, with cvugopwrara. She gives him back his own 
arguments ; see 568, 595; and so in the following sentences. 


NOTES. 113 


879. th ardcxw; what am I thinking of ? what possesses me to act as I 
do? Cp. 1049. 

880. mat&es: referring to 565. — x8ova gebyovras: their banishment 
from lToleus is meant. — pas: Jason and all the family ; see 551-554. 

884. cwdpoveiv refers to 549. 

887. Evprrepatvey and the following infinitives are brought in as if #... 
peréxew had preceded, instead of the impersonal 7...uerevar. Hence, too, 
the accus. kyndevovcav. — wapertdvat Axe: that is, assist at the bridal 
ceremonies, particularly in conducting the bride into the @d\auos. — vip- 
ony, k. 7. A.: construe FdecOai re Kkndevoucay (tending) viugav cer, 

889 fle. éopeév oidv éopev: a depreciatory expression. Cp. 1011. Said 
in reference to 573 fly. — yuvatkes is predicate noim., ‘in short, we are 
women.’ —Kakots: generalizing plural; you were not therefore bound to 
imitate a bad example like myself. She compliments him on his forbear- 
ance at their previous interview. — By v@ma she means blind, senseless 
invective. 

892. mwapéperOa, J speuk you fuir, I crave your good-will. mwaplerbac 
is used of one who by concessions and fair words tries to win over another. 
— dpoveiv: infin. of the imperfect ; GMT. § 15, 3. 

896. SiadAdxOnre THs mp. exOpas, wwike peace in renouncing your former 
enmity. Since dia\Xdooouae is strictly effect a change in my relations, it 
can, like any other compound of d@d\A\doow, take the genitive. — The chil- 
dren, in answer to this summons, appear from the house accompanied by 
their guardian. 

899 fig. otpot...Kexpuppévov: with admirable art the poet makes Me- 
dea’s grief overcome her in spite of the part she is acting, so as almost to 
betray her. Her tears burst forth at sight of the children, and these 
words escape her almost involuntarily. But, recovering herself, she goes 
on dp ® tékva, x. 7. ., soas to lead Jason to understand 7a Kexpuyméva 
of the hidden future, and refer her emotion to natural anxiety for the chil- 
dren’s life. 

904 fig. xpdvw, at length. — rhv8e, as you see. 

906 fig. xAwpdyv, fresh. Like our green (wood, fruit, ete.), it is opposed 
to dry, withered, without reference to color ; so, finally, as applied to wine 
(Cycl. 67) or water (Phoen. 660) it can mean little else than sparkling. — 
mpoBaln petLov = mpoSain wore uetfov eivac, 

908. éxetva, your former conduct. 

909 fig. dpyds moveto Oar: periplrasis for dpyiterOat, — wapepmrodavtos 
(avrot): genitive absolute, instead of the dative with méce:, simply for con- 
venience of the verse. H. 791d. Cp. Soph. Trach. 803. 

912. vikaoay = kpeicow. — AAG TO xpdve, in time at any rate (if not 
at once), For this use of a\Ad, H. 863 a. 


114 MEDEA. 


915. moddArv COyke trpopynPlav, has taken measures of great prudence. — 
ovv Qeois, as 802. 

917. +a mpata of persons of the highest rank, Or. 1248 and elsewhere. 

920. tédos, period. Just so Alc. 412, ynpws rédos. 

922. airy as vocative; H. 680 a; G. § 148, N. 2. 

926. €0 bécOat epi twos is not Greek. The right expression (see Iph. T. 
1008) is €8 0éc0at rd Twos. Trépt has crept in from above, and before ravde 
two syllables (— ~), containing the article, have fallen out. 

928. éml Saxptots ey, is by nature prone to tears. 

$29. tddawa, tenderly ; poor woman. This verse comes in rather 
abruptly here. The coherence is improved by placing 929-931 between 
925 and 926. 

931. olkros et, a compassionate anxiety (ein wehmiithiges Gefiihl, Klotz) 
as to whether. Cp. 184. 

934, émel, x. 7. d.: the apodosis is 9388 fly. — atmooretAat: a mild term. 

938 fle. dmralpopev: the present in a future sense, like etu. H. 699 a; 
GMT. § 10, 1, Notes 6 and 7. — Saws dv: H. 741; GMT. § 44, 1, N. 2. 

942. addAd as 912; at any rate. —watpds: the genitive with alreio@ar 
(as if detoOac) is surprising ; ep. 1154. 

944 fle. meloev ode, that I shall persuade her (not that she will persuade 
him), as 946 shows. The following verse then means, ‘if she is soft-hearted 
and susceptible to your blandishments like others of her sex.’ Medea slyly 
flatters Jason’s self-complacency ; he prides himself on his influence with 
women, The Mss. continue 945 to Jason; that it belonged to Medea is 
seen from the scholia. 

949. From 786. Elmsley and Kirchhoff reject it there and admit it 
here. 

950. aAA@ in abrupt transition. — &ceov Taxos = ws Tdxos = ws TaXLOTA. 

958. otro. peprrd, not to be despised, with a double meaning. The 
reader should not fail to note the covert irony of many of Medea’s phrases, 
as 952, 957. 

962. pas, me. Jason’s vanity is wounded at the thought that gifts 
ean prevail more than his own influence. 

965. ph por ab: sc. Adyous Aéye. — Adyos: this proverb, as quoted 
Plat. Rep. 390, runs : — 

Sapa Beovs meiOer, Mp’ aidocovs BactAnas* 
paraphrased, Ovid, Ars Amat. ili. 658, munera, crede mihi, capiunt homt- 
nesqie dcosgile. 

966 fle. The argument is: ‘such finery bescems a fortunate princess 
rather than an outeast like myself, and as for its value, I would give even 
my life to keep my children from banishment.’ — 6 Salpov, Fortuna, the 
luck, — xeiva = 7d €xelvns. — véa tupavvel, she is young—a princess, — 


NOTES. 115 


gvyds: that is, the remission of the penalty. ddAddocecar is receive in 
exchange for, purchase at the price of (ess often give in exchange). 

974. (rovTwy) dv épa tuxetv: purposely ambiguous. The omitted ante- 
cedent depends on evayyedo.. — The children here depart with their guar- 
dian-slave and Jason. 

978 fle. dvaberpav d&rav, the bane of the head-bunds = the baneful head- 
bands, — Tov" Aisa kéopov, funestum ornatun. (Pilugk.) 

985. vupdokopyoe: namely, as bride of Hades; the same idea Iph. 
Aul. 461, Or. 1109. 

989. tmepdhevgerar: as out of a snare in which the feet are entangled: 
ep. Aesch. Pers. 100. Three syllables (~ — ~) are lacking after this 
word. 

992 flg. macolvy—Brora: two datives, of the whole and part, instead of 
maidwy Borg. Cp. Hipp. 1274, @ wawoueva kpadia...€popudon, H. F. 179; 
Bacch. 619; Heracl. 63. 

995. polpas mapolxe, wre at fault respecting your lot, fail to realize what 
awaits you; literally, have struycd beyond it. (Not, ‘how art thou fallen 
from thy high estate.’) 

996. petracrévopar, L puss to bewailing, I bewail in turn (after having 
bewailed something else), Schol. wePicrauae 6@ kal emi 7d cov adyos. So 





werakdaiouat, Hee. 211. In neither of these places can weva- mean too late 
or afterward. Cp. peretxouat, 600. 

1000. cov: dat. of disadvantage. 

1002. ‘The radaywyds, who has accompanied the boys to the palace, here 
returns with them, and addresses his mistress in breathless cagerness to 
tell the good tidings. Medea, assured of the success of her plans, and now 
brought face to face with her dreadful task, stands motionless with horror, 
and seems not to hear him. — édetvrat: cp. the construction of adiévac 
here with that at 1155.  Creon’s consent had not yet been obtained 
(1156 flg.), but as the bride has promised to intercede, the servant thinks 
the matter certain. 

1004, raxeiOev, so fur as matters in that quarter are concerned, 

1006 fig. From 923 flg. 

1009 fig. pav...ov« ot8a, do J, without knowing it, announce some mis- 
chance? rvxn in a bad sense, as 1203. — 8dfa edayyedos is the credit of 
bringing good tidings ; see on 557. 

1011. Hyyetdas of HyyedAas: cp. 889. 

1013 fig. mwoAAy p avayKn, sc. daxpuppoety, — Tatra ydp, k. 7. A. The 
idea is, ‘my own perverseness, under influence of the gods, has brought this 
about.’ She is thinking of the sending of the fatal gifts, but the old man 
understands her impending banishment, and answers accordingly. 

1015 fig. Kdre, shalt return from banishment, — pds tékvev, through 


116 MEDEA. 


thy children. —katdgw in double sense ; shall restore from banishneent, and 
shall bring down to Hades. 

1018. @Ovynrov dvra, one who is mortal, 

1020. The attendant enters the house; the children remain. In the 
remarkable scene which follows, Medea is, swayed now this way, now that, 
by conflicting emotions. 

1021 fig. méAts and Sopa covertly allude to the lower world ; so otk. det 
with significance. 

1026 flg. A€krpa: not pleonastic, but = mateh, marriage. — Kapmrdbas : 
to carry torches at the bridal festivities was the special duty of the mothers 
of the contracting parties. 

1029. &Aras, fo 10 purpose. — 1030 also in Troad. 735. 

1035. {nAerdév: feminine, or neuter referring to the infin. clause? Prob- 
ably the latter. 

1039, &AAo ox Apa Blov: ambiguous ; the boys understand the splendid 
life in the palace ; she means the life below. 

1046 fig. rovtwv with emphasis ; ‘by harming fem,’ not the guilty man 
himself. — 8\s toca: twice as great as | inflict on him. 

1049. +l mdoxw; as 879. — yé&Awra: forgiveness of a wrong the Greeks 
considered no virtue, but a weakness. 

1051. tis wis Kakys, k. 7. A.: genit. of exclamation, followed by the 
infinitive expressing astonishment; GMT. $104. Shiuime on my cowardice f 
To think that I should even have let slip sot words from my heart. 

1054 fig. Ovpaoiw: she speaks of the murder as of a sacrifice, and says, 
“Jet him whose conscience forbids his presence, stay away.’ The language 
is that of one warning the unholy away from a sacred act. — atto padyoe, 
SC. “hn mapetvar. — Xelpa 8’ od Stabepa, wainwin non corruimpaim miseri- 
cordia, (Pfilugk.) The idea is enfeeble, destroy the force of; so yrounv 
diapbetpew, allow my resolutivi to waver, Aesch. Ag. 932. 

1056 fig. Ovpe: Medea addresses her passion as it were another person, 
She falters again for an instant, but with a sudden revulsion of feeling 
bursts forth pa Tots, x. 7. A. — éket: in Athens, 

1059 flg. With these words Medea’s frenzy culminates ; hereafter her 
mood is one of calm and unflinching resolution. — wapyow: she persuades 
herself, in spite of 1045 and 1058, that it is too late to save the boys by 
flight. — 1062, 1063, from 1240, 1241. 

1064. mérpaxrat: GMT. $17, N. 6. 

1069. mpoceamety: this word means either to greet at meeting (895) or 
to bid farewell at parting ; here the latter. The children are yet on the 
stage ; Medea must have detained them at 1056. 

1073. éxet—évOaSe : both with a double meaning. 

1074. mpooBody: ciihrace. év 6é Ty wepimTiacedbat Kal Katagidey Tabra 
A€yer. Schol. Cp. Suppl. 1139, rpocBoXal rpocwm wv. 





NOTES. ily 


1077. ota = ofa re. So Kirchhoff. But the text is very uncertain. 

1079. Bovreupdtoy, better judyment. This sentiment Euripid. has 
repeated several times ; as fragm. 838, alai, 766° 76 Getov dvOpwmors KaKdy, 
éray TLs Edn Tayabdr, xpqTat dé wy. Cp. the well-known words of Ovid’s 
Medea (Met. 7, 20), video meliora proboque, deterivru sequor. 

1081. The children have again entered the house; Medea remains anx- 
jiously looking for further news. Meanwhile the chorus-leader recites the 
following verses, which are not a stasimon, but only an anapaestic pas- 
sage separating the parts of the episode, like that at 357, but of unusual 
length. She prepares the way for the sentiments about children she ex- 
presses below (1090) by saying that she, in spite of her sex, has participated 
in philosophical speculations, since some women, though few, have intel- 
lectual culture (uofca), A similar exordium, Alc. 962, — 8a Aer. pide 
eporov, have engaged in subtler arguments ; ep. 872. 

1087 fig. matpov yévos, @ small class: supply éo7tv. plav was ingen- 
iously supplied by Elmsley, after Heracl. 327, ravpwv wer’ ddd\wvr eva yap 
€v ToNXots icws elipos dy boris, K. 7. X. —TO Yuvatkav is added somewhat 
freely at the end; of womankind namely, referring to yévos. 

1091. Gtrepor, namely madorodas, as the next clause shows. A like 
sentiment, Alc. SSO; the reverse, lon 488. 

1094 fly. 8 aretportvyy elite, through inexpericnce as to whether, —odx 
TuxovTes, tnusmuch as they have none (children). 

1101 tig. mpa@rov pév—re: see on 126. —8trws Opdpwor: GMT. § 45 and 
Note 8. — omdev Actipouer is an indirect question partaking of the nature 
of an object clause after an expression of care or anxiety; cp. GMT. § 45 
Remark, and foot-note. 

1103. ék, after. 

1105. Td 7. Aoloebiov Kakdy, the crowning evil of all, 

1107. Kal 84 as 386. 

1109, «i 8 kupyoar Salipwv obtos, si tainen ca fortuna crveniat, (Elmsley.) 

1112 fly. Aver = AvoiTeNe?, as 566. — tHVBe AVayy is the grief of losing 
children by death, and the sense is: ‘Why, for the sake of having children, 
should men incur such afflictions at the hands of the gods?’ 

1117. tdaketGev for ra éxez, from the influence of xapadoxd. 

1123. Aurotea: that is, ‘not leaving unused,’ taking the first means 
of conveyance that offers. vatav amqvyv: a circumlocution for ship, like 
vaiov dynua, Iph. T. 410. 

1129, pév as in 676. — dpovels op0a; are you tn your right mind ? 

1133. pa orépxov, don't Le cacited. — pidos: nomin. for yocative. 

1140, éometo Bat = crovduis diadedvKévat. 

1141. 6 pév ms: H. 525, fine print. 7s shows that 6 wéy does not 
refer to any particular person, 


118 MEDEA. 


1143. oréyas yovatkav (accus. of place whither), the yuvackwriris or 
women’s apartment. It was unusual fora man to enter this, but the joy 
of the moment excused this infraction. 

1144. Oavpafoper, Zook up to. (Klmsley.) 

1150. dpyds adrpa: 456 and note. 

1151 fig. od pr Svopevis toe... radoe St... Kal orpépers, kh 7. r., be not 
wrathful...but cease...and turn, ete. GMT. § 89, 2 and Note 1, where 
similar examples. The futures express a command, and are probably inter- 
rogative, od going with all of them, “7 only with éce. Otherwise Good- 
win, de coRem..2: 

1153. ovomep &v, sc. vouign. 

1154 fly. wapaurqoe: maparretoGar marpds is less anomalous than aé- 
reicOat marpds, 942, but both are singular. — épdhv xapww adverbial, for my 
sake. 

1158 fig. ametvat: the boys returning home with their attendant, Jason 
going elsewhere. —qpaloyeto: aor. (H. 438, 5); the form qumréorxero, with 
double augment, is very doubtful. 

1162, eixé (gen. efxots, Hel. 77), collateral form of efxwy. 

1165 tig. moda modAdkts, often and again. — tévovT’ és dpOdv: Tévwr is 
certainly the foot (properly the screw of the heel), as Bacch. 938, and 6p6ds 
seems to mean raised on tiptue. She stands on tiptoe and looks over her 
shoulder to survey the fall of the robe. 

1167. rovvOévde, deinde. Strictly an appositive; as the next thing in 
order, — 

1169 fig. @dve with a participle as usual, but followed by ph wereiv 
(instead of the more regular mpiy mecety), since it implies prevention, a nega- 
tive idea. GMT. § 95, 2 (c); H. 888. Scurce’y does she throw herself...in 
time to avoid falling, ete. 

1172. Ilavos dpyds. Such a sudden and unaccountable feeling of terror 
as sometimes comes over one in deep forests and lonely mountain glades 
the Greeks believed to be sent by Pan, and thence any apparently cause- 
less fright or panic (wavxdy detua), even in battle, as well as sudden 
madness and epileptic fits, were thought to come from him. A like crazing 
influence over the mind was ascribed to other deities, Dionysus, Hecate, 
Cybele. In such cases it was proper that the divine presence be recog- 
nized hy an ddodvy7 or prayerful ejaculation, a peculiar cry of the women, 
expressive of religious fervor and joy, and used on divers sacred occa- 
sions. 

1173 fle. amply ye, ¢i/7 wt length. —dppatev ard kdpas orpépovoay: i. e. 
amtoortpépovoay képas duparwr. Timesis. 

1176. avripormoy, in a different strain from, governs ddodvyjs. Cp. 
Alc. 922, tpevaiwy yoos avrimanos. 


NOTES. 149 


1181 fig. 48n...4mTero shows how long it was that the princess lay in 
her swoon, Already a swift walker, at a brisk pace (avé\kwv k@dov), would 
have been reaching the goal of a course six plethra long (that is. would have 
walked a stadium), when she, ete. The transcribers strangely misunderstood 
and garbled this passage. The reading in the text is Porson’s, after cor- 
rections of Reiske and Musgrave. But even this is hardly sound ; dvéAxwv, 
in this connection, for dvaxoudifwvr, éEaipwy, is odd, and as all the Mss. have 
the ace. &kreOpov agrecing with K@Xov, it seems likely that x@Xov (as Aesch. 
Agam. 344) meant one side of a double race-course, and that dvéAxwy has 
replaced some other participle, with the idea of passing over; perhaps 
avépruy or avehOwy (Weil avecdGr). 

1183. é§ as in the expressions é€& efpjvys mohewetv, ex Saxptwy yehav, etc. 
Transl. from this condition of, or after remaining with. — avatdov with 
duuares by a kind of zeugma. Elmsl. compares ruddy xetpa, Ph. 1699, 
Tvpr] Todt, Hee. 1050. 

1193. By ctvSeopa are meant clasps of some sort (ep. Bacch. 697), by 
which the head-dress was fastened on, and ‘the gold held the clasps’ means 
simply that the golden clasps would not give way. 

1196. Kdpta Svopabys Setv, very hard to recognize at sight. 

1197. 8fAos: see on 61.— Kataorracts, expression, strictly settled con- 
dition. 

1200. mevkivov Sixpu- ticca. Hesych. 

1204. tixnv...d8d0Kadov : i.e. we learned caution from the recent 
calamity. 

1209. yépovra is used adjectively. yépwy rvuBos, of an old man ripe for 
the grave, occurs again Heracl. 166. 

1216. 48’ dvteXaturo: of course only in appearance, by the adhesion 
of the robes ; it does not imply, as the Schol. thought, that she was still 
alive. — mpds Blav &you, struggled violently. 

1218. améoty, desisted. 

1221. wo8avy Saxpvoict: a misfortune welcome to tears is boldly put 
for one which calls for, or excites a desire for tears. (The meaning to be 
mourned for, which Liddell and Scott, 6th ed., assign to mo@euwdés here, it 
cannot possibly have.) 

1222. ‘The sense: ‘your situation I will not speak of.’ 

1224 fig. The messenger closes with some rather gloomy reflections : 
there is, he thinks, no such thing as true happiness among men ; philoso- 
phers, who pretend to have found the key to evdacuovia, are guilty of most 
serious deceit. — 0d viv mpatov: cp. 293, 446. 

1227. typlav: they deserve punishment, he means, for misguiding the 
multitude. Many write wwpiay on conjecture. 

1228 flg. He distinguishes between evéauwovia, complete happiness un- 


120 MEDEA. 


alloyed with misery, and edrvxéa, mere good luck for the time being. — 
The messenger now departs. 

1236 flg. rotpyov: subject of déoxrac and explained by the inf. ddopu. 
and é€xdodvar as appositives. — ktavotoy—éyovoav: the nearer conforms 
itself to wor, the latter falls back into the accus. 

1240. mavtws, in any case. Even if she spared them, they would be 
killed as instrumental in causing the death of the princess and Creon. 

1243, pi) mpaccev: uy od (which Elmsley restored) would be in place 
here, but is not necessary ; see GMT. § 95, 2, Note 2, last part. 

1245. BadPiSa: the deed is to be the beginning of a long career of 
wretchedness, which she likens to a race. —Avnpav goes in thought rather 
with Biov; see note on kadapay, 660. 

1250. te—8€: H. 855 b. — Medea enters the house. 

1251 fig. The text of this ode is corrupt in several places, though its 
tenor is plain. The chorus calls, as a last resort, on the gods to prevent 
the impending crime; on the Sun, Medea’s and the children’s ancestor, 
and the Earth, who will be polluted by the blood ; deplores then the mur- 
derous frenzy which can bring nothing but evil in its train, 

1252 fig. "AédAtos has not often a, but a clear case seems to be Soph. 
Trach. 835. — kariSer’ tere: as trdxovcov dxovooy, Ale. 400, and several 
other examples. The preposition belongs equally to both verbs. ‘Look 
on her before she does the deed’ implies, of course, ‘prevent her.’ 

1255 flg. The Mss. cas yap do against metre; amd has crowded out 
some trochaic word beginning with a consonant. — @BAacrev: who? Me- 
dea, as it stands. But it is the boys’ divine origin that the chorus is 
thinking of, not Medea’s, who is referred to in the next line as avépes. 
So, too, the Scholiast ; €8\acrev’ dvri rot €B\dorycar, pucav. érel 7 Mydeca 
bev exyvovos "HXiov, obra 6€ €x Mndeias. It is likely that the lacuna con- 
tained a word designating the children. Wecklein writes orépua ; it might 
be a neut. plural. — Beav, x. 7. ., there ts fear that a god's blood (in the 
boys’ veins) be shed by human hands. The Mss. aiuar:, giving neither 
sense nor metre ; -7¢ is a trace of some lost word; Wecklein médou. Per- 





haps alu’ émi ya. 

1259 fle. &€eN otkwv, x. 7. X., expel from the house the demon of ven- 
geance, bloodthirsty, driven hither and thither by the Furies. Not Medea 
herself, but rather her guiding genius is meant. I have written nearly 
with Weil; the Ms. reading violates the metre, and affords no dependence 
for the last two words. — dAdoropov: from nom. a\doropos, another form 
for d\acrTwp. 

1261. pox@os téxvor, the toil expended on the children. 

1267. dpelBerar as it stands must be rendered comes in turn, ensues. 
But the metre betrays a gap of two short syllables. 


NOTES. 121 


1268 fig. Obscure and corrupt. The most that can be made of it is: 
grievous to mortals is the stain of kindred blood (dmoyerA wsdou.) abroad in 
the land, recoiling from the divine hand (@e66ev mitvovra) as corresponding 
woes (gurmda xn) upon the house of the murderers (avropévrats ert dduors). 
ovvwS4a, sc. Tos midguacw ; commensurate with the guilt. 

1271. The voices of the boys are heard behind the scene. The two 
verses olpot...dAAvpecGa yap come in the Mss. before 1273. But the anti- 
strophe shows that two trimeters are wanting after 1274, and it seems best 
(as Seidler first proposed) to insert these, and supply their place above with 
some exclamation (as ala?) standing extra metruim. The falling out of this 
word occasioned the trausposition. 

1275 fig. apygav: dp7yw construed like dudvw, as Tro. 776, ward 7’ od 
Suvaiued’ av Oavarov dpiéat, and Heracl. 840. — Soxet por, J have a mind. 
But, with a timidity characteristic of the chorus, they do not venture after 
all. So Aesch. Ag. 1346 the chorus, in a similar situation, talk of coming 
to the rescue, but do not doit. Cp. Hipp. 782. 

1278. apkvev Elpous : a like figure, H. F. 729, Bpdxoce 6 apxiwy...dipn- 
Popo, 

1279, Aoba: see on Fv, 703. 

1281. tékvwv dpotov (seyetem liberorum, Pflugk) periphrasis for réxva. 
—atroxetpt polpa, uv deuth inflicted by thine own hands, like abréxecpe 
cgayn, Orest. 947. 

1284, Ino, daughter of Cadmus, wife of Athamas, had incurred Hera’s 
anger by caring for the infant Dionysus, whence she and her husband were 
visited with madness. The commoner form of the story is that Athamas 
slew one of their children, Learchus, and would have sain the other, Meli- 
certes, but that Ino fled from him and leaped into the sea with the infant 
in herarms. But Euripides has here followed another account, not else- 
where found, which makes Ino kill both children in her frenzy, and then 
throw herself into the sea in despair. The gods took pity on Ino ‘and she 
became a sea-goddess under the name of Leucothea ; Odyss. €, 333. 

1286. dvw is dat. of cause. 

1288. axrqs: the Molurian rock near Megara. — treptelvaca moda: 
namely in the act of stepping off into the sea, 

1290. Sevdv: that is, that can be called terrible in comparison with 
these crimes. 

1293, Jason comes in breathless haste to save his children from the ven- 
geance of the Coriuthians. 

1296 fig. viw—ode: the repetition of the pronoun after so short an in- 
terval is singular. But as et can take an accus. even without an infinitive 
(as de? we TovTov), it is possible that uy was felt to belong so closely to dee 
as to justi; another subject for the infinitive, somewhat as in Paley’s ren- 


122 MEDEA. 


dering, ‘‘it is needful for her that she...” —mrnvey, on wings. — db pi 
Sacre, if she means to escape paying ; GMT. § 49, 1, Note 3. 

1300. airy: ‘plane hic otiosum et supervacaneum vocabulum.”  Her- 
mann. Not so; the sense is, ‘does she who killed others expect to escape 
death herself ?’ 

1301. aAAa—ydp: not as 252, 1085, but adda introduces épEougs below ; 
cp. 1067, 1344. 

1302 fle. (otro) obs (kaxas) Bpacev epfovery kakas. — exoooar: GMT. 
§ 97, Note 1, latter part. 

1304 flg. pot: dat. incommodi of the person remotely interested, as in 
283. With Spdcwor understand adrovs. — ot mpoonkovres yéver: sc. 
Kpéovrt. — pytp@oy, comiritted by their mother. — ékmrpaacovtes bovov = 
éxp. povou dixny. 

1309, maiSes—oéOev together. oé#e is similarly placed, Suppl. 133; 
Phoen. 1213, 1588. 

1310. ti A€Eas ; (GMT. § 25, 1, Note 6, last part), what do you mean ? 
The future as if the speaker did not comprehend the whole calamity and 
expected some further account. 

1311. ws ovkér’ éytwv: on the construction GMT. § 113, Note 10 (b).— 
dpdvtite, consider solemnly, take it to heart. 

1314 flg. Addressed to the slaves within, who alone can undo the fasten- 
ings. Cp. Or. 1561; H. F. 332; Hipp. 808; I. T. 1304 (rots évdov réyw). 
— 8tmdotv Kakov: the corpses and the murderess. — In tiv 8 tlropar 
there is an abrupt change of construction ; we should expect ti 6é Kreiva- 
cay, fy Ticonat Povyw. 

1317. While Jason is trying to force the door, Medea suddenly appears 
aloft in a chariot drawn by dragons (see Hypothesis), bearing the bodies 
of the boys. — dvapoxAedvets: so Heracles (H. F. 999) ckdmre, woxdever 
Ovperpa, not, however, on the stage. That Jason actually uses a lever is 
hardly to he thought ; probably the word is applied metaphorically to his 
efforts to lift the door off its hinges. But the phrase excited the ridicule 
of Aristophanes, Clouds 1397. 

1322. epupa xepds, protection against the hand. 

1323. péyrorov éxPiory: strengthened superlative ; ep. wrelcrov ndioryy, 
Wiles 790. 

1329. gpovev : participle of the imperfect ; GMT. $ 16, 2. 

1333. tov cav...Beol, an avenging demon which haunted thy faintly the 
gods have hurled upon ime. This refers back to viv @pov®, 1329. The sense 
of the whole is, ‘ Now I realize what I did not realize before ; an ancestral 
curse which rested on thy family has passed over upon me.’ The idea of 
the dddorwp, so prominent in Greek tragedy, had its roots in the popular 
belief. It isa demon of vengeance, which ceaselessly haunts its victims, 


NOTES. 123 


and passes from generation to generation perpetuating crime and misery. 
So here the a\aorwp spoken of (the evil genius which actuates Medea) is 
the personification of an ancient curse clinging to Medea’s family ; it had 
wreaked itself on that family in the murder of Apsyrtus, and now on Jason 
in the murder of his children. (The reading rév o@y ad. is due to Weck- 
lein, who, however, interprets it wrongly ‘the demon that avenged thy 
kindred.’ But dd\dotwp twés is, in good writers, never the demon which 
avenges one, but that which haunts one.) 

1334. wapéoriov heightens the guilt. He had fled to the éoria as a 
suppliant. Eurip. adopts the account, also followed by Sophocles in the 
Kodxides, that Apsyrtus was murdered at home. The common story is 
that he accompanied Medea and Jason in their flight, and was slain on 
the way. 

1337. dv8pl rode, (ic homini) me. 

1340. ov: the plural idea, “ENAnvidwy yuvarkay, is involved in the pre- 
ceding. ¢ 

1342. Tuponvides: cither Jtalivn (the Etruscans being to Eurip. the 
representative people of Italy), or because she lived at the entrance to the 
Tuscan sea. Cp. 1359. 

1344. GAG introduces gppe. See on 1301, 

1347. mwdpa = mdpeore; cp. 443, 

1348 flg. Observe o}re— od correlated, — mporetrety: see on 1069. 

1351. éérava: the aor. refers to the present moment, the idea being, I 
should undertuke te make a long speech (which, however, I do not), whereas 
é&érewov would mean rather, J should now be making a long speech. GMT. 
§ 49, 2, Note 5; H. 746 a, last part. Cp. v. 425. 

1357. G@tipov: ariudpnrov (Schol.), wnavenged, a meaning which the 
word has Hipp. 1417, Aesch. Ag. 1279. It takes the emphasis ; ‘Creon 
was not going to banish me without my having my revenge.’ dros gets 
this meaning naturally ; it is, without satisfaction, deprived of one’s* due, 
since vengeance was a tin or natural right. 

1359 fig. dkynoev, has fixed her habitation in, so dwells in. — os xp%, 
‘comme tl faut,’ finely. 

1362. Ave (566) GAyos, gricf profits me; i.e. I can ufford to grieve. 

1364. voow, morbid passion. 

1366. cof: in sense with U8pes as well as yauor. 

1367. ye belongs to \éxous: an enclitic (or uév, dé) often separates ye from 
its word. 

1371. eloty answers ovkér eioi of the previous verse. ‘They Jive as 
ruthless avengers to haunt thee.’ prderwp (polluter) is either (1) a guilt- 
stained wretch whose contact defiles others, or (2) the ghost of a murdered 
man haunting the murderer, and producing piacua, blood-guiltiness. 





124 MEDEA. 


Here and Aesch. Eum, 177 it has the latter sense. Hence o@ kdpq, be- 
cause their blood is upon Medea’s head. 

1374. ordvye, abhor me if you will; referring to the word dmrémrrvarov 
above. — Bétv here means conversation, socicty. 

1375. pddior 8’ amadAayat. Medea wishes him to leave her (this is im- 
plied in 1374), that she may accomplish undisturbed the burial of her chil- 
dren before setting out for Athens. He says, riddance is easy, i. e. to be 
had on easy terms. She scornfully asks ‘ how ?’ affecting to be anxious to 
comply. (Yet we fail to see how Jason’s presence is any hindrance to 
Medea, for she is mistress of the situation, and can proceed in her dragon- 
car at any moment to bury the bodies. But to take drad\ayal, with 
Paley, to mean divorce does not help the matter.) 

1379. The most fainous Corinthian temple of Hera daxpaia (goddess of 
the heights) was at the end of the Heraean promontory in the Corinthian 
gulf, distant from the city several miles in a straight line across the bay. 
Elusley and most others have supposed that temple to be meant here. 
But the local tradition represented the children as buried in the city itself ; 
at least their monument (uvjua) stood there, near the street leading toward 
Sicyon. And we know that in the same quarter, on a spur of the Acro- 
corinthus, there was a temple of Hera Bouvala. Now as Bovvaia and dxpala 
seem to be equivalent terms, it is altogether probable that this was the 
temple in which the rites relating to Medea were celebrated, and in the 
tévevos of which the children’s graves were. This view is confirmed by the 
Schol. on this passage, who says that the temple here mentioned was 
situated on the Acrocorinthus. See E. Curtius, Peloponnesus, Vol. II. 
p. 533. 

1380. as pf tis, x. 7.4. The sacredness of the place would insure this. 

1382. éoptiv Kal TeAN: see Introduction, § 18. 

1386. Medea here appears endowed with the prophetic gift, to which 
she has a right as a sorceress and the grand-daughter of a god. As to 
Jason’s death, see the first Hypothesis. The Schol. knows another ac- 
count, according to which Jason had hung up the ship’s gunwale in the 
temple of Hera, and this fell down and crushed him. See also Neophron, 
frag. 3, Appendix. 

1389 fle. @AAG oé (not dAAd ce), with emphasis on the pronoun, — 
*Eewis téxvov: the Erinys of a particular person is often spoken of as 
avenging his death. — govta, i. e. requiting murder with murder. 

1396. otcw Opyvets: the sense is, ‘You do not yet know what grief is. 
Wait till you are old.’ (Paley.) He will then feel what it is to be child- 
less. — Kal yjpas, age in addition to your present afilictions. 

1400. mpormrigacbat (here = kiss, cp. Phocn. 1671), infin. of purpose 
added epexegetically. 


NOTES. 125 


1401. mpocavdas: see on 1069. This verb is regularly used of farewell 
words spoken to the dead, —a Greek custom. — domdate: of a parting 
salutation, as Tro. 1276. 

1408. omdeov refers to the whole of the next line. ‘I do at least what 
I can, I lament...’ 

1413. picas: the participle contains the leading idea, as often. JWVould 
that I had never begotten them, to sce them, ete. — pecov: augmentless 
also Aesch. Pers. 915. 

1416 flg. These seem to have been stock verses of Euripides, for they 
conclude not only this play, but also the Alcestis, Andromache, Bacchae, 
and Helena. On this Hermann (Bacch. 1388) says: ‘*Qui factum sit ut 
Euripides quinque fabulas iisdem versibus finierit, non memini me a 
quoquam interpretum indicatum legisse. Scilicet, ut fit in theatris, quum 
actorum partes ad finem deductae essent, tantus erat surgentium atque 
abeuntium strepitus, ut quae chorus in exitu fabulae recitare solebat, vix 
exaudiri possent. Ko factum, ut illis chori versibus parum curae impen- 
deretur.” Others have thought that such endings were added by the 
actors. Wecklein points out that 1417 tlg. do not apply to the Medea. 


126 MEDEA. 


CHIEF DEVIATIONS 


FROM THE BEST MANUSCRIPTS. 


Tu following list includes only cases in which the reading adopted in 
the text is found in 20 manuscript of the 1st class (see Intr. § 8). Before 
the colon stands the adopted reading, after it the reading of the 1st class 
Mss., minor variants neglected. Where the former is derived from Mss, 
of the 2d class it is marked 2; where from the scholia, S; otherwise it 
stands by conjecture only. Smaller corrections are omitted. 


107 dvdter 2 : dvaiver. —140 rov : 6. — 149 dydv : laxav. —150 dmddrov : 


amidaorov. — 159 dupouéva : ddvpopéva, — 182 omevoaca : cretoar. — 228 
yeyvdokes 3 yeyvwoxew. — 234 toir ér : Tobr’ (7006 ér 2). — 253 dds @& 


HO’ 2: modes HO’ and yap words 76’. — 259 rocovde 5’ Ex : Torodrov dé. — 261 
Sikny : dixn. —262 % 7: qv 7. — 273 cauTy : a’rn. — 317 Bovdrevns : Bov- 


Aevons. — 3823 pevets 2: wévns. — 415 orpépouvce : aorpépovow.. — 445 érra- 
véota : éméotn and avéorn. — 491 cvyyvecr av 2 : ovyyvwordy, — 494 
Oéop : Oéope’. — 550 Hovxos 2: Haovyws. — 594 Baoiéwy : Bacitéws. — 599 
kvigoe 2: Kviger. — 643 dwuara : dua. — 647 oiktpdrarov : olktporatwyv. — 
654 widov : utOwv. — 656 dkricev : dkTepe. — 708 cvyyvwor yay ap : cvy- 
yword yap. —721 dv: dv 2. — 736 pedet’ : weOns (ueOets). —737 avdporos : 
évijotos. — 738 Kdmexnpuxeduata S : kamexnpuxevuact. — 739 tax av ridou 


ge: ovk av miOowo. —752 Hrtov 0 ayviv céBas marginal gloss : Aaumpdv & 





HAlov gdos. — 781 Aurotc av : urobca. 817 Aééns : NéEers. — 835 pods : 
poats. — 847 H wdNtts 7) hitwy: } ditwy 7 wddes, — 852 alper : aipn. — 854 
wavTn o : waves, — 855 réxva Hovedans : Texva ph povetans. — 857 Téxvor : 
Texvwv, — 860 bupata 2: Supa. — 864 xépa dowilay : xetpa poviav. — 867 
ovray : ovk av. — 905 répewapr : repelynv, — 926 rdvde Onoowae wept : TVS’ 
eyo Onoouar mépt, Tavde viv Ojow Tept. —945 to Med. S: Mss. to Jas. — 
978 dvadecpay : dvadécuwy. — 983 memdov : rétAWY. — 984 ypvadbrevKTov Te: 


xpucedrevktov. — 992 dreOpov Brora S : 6\EPprov Brorav. — 1005 éa to Paed.: 
Mss. to Med. — 1012 61) : 6&. —1015 xaree : kpare?s. —1054 Ovuacw S and 
2: ddyacw. — 1077 ola mpds: ota te mpds. —1087 mafpoy dé yevos miap : 
madpoy dé dh (de re 2) yevos. — 1089 ovx : kodK. — 1099 écope 2 : d6p@.— 1121 
Tapavouws eipyacnevn 2: Tapavouws 7 elpyacuevov. — 1130 éariay 2 : ofxiay. 
— 1139 olkwy S: Srwr. — 1181 ExrddOpov : ExmdePpov. — 1182 av irrero: 


CHIEF DEVIATIONS. 127 


avOyrrero. — 1189 AevKhy : Nerrhv. — 1205 mpoorirver 2 : mpoorimrer. — 
1221 Saxptouor S and 2 : daxptovor. — 1252 powiav : poviay. — 1255 yap... 
Xp.: yap amd xp. — 1256 aiua S : aiware. — 1259 hovewr’ adaivort’ ’Epwtwv 
ta ddaortopoy : poviay rahaway 7 Epwtv bm’ ddacrépwv. — 1262 pdray dpa: 
dpa waray. — 1280 dv : dv. —1283 xépa : yetpa. —1295 roicd’ ér : roiadé ¥. 
— 1333 trav cdv : Tov cov. — 1356 006’'— 0d’ : ot6’—ot0’. —1357 drimov S: 
avarel, —1371 dol : doe and ofuor. —1374 orvvyer : orvyet. — 1398 éxaves: 
Extaves. — 1409 xamiBedgw : kamiodgw. — 1413 dpeNov : wpedov. 


METRES OF THE LYRICAL PARTS. 





Five kinds are used in this play. 
1. Dactylo-epitritic (or Doric) strophes are composed of the following 
elements (series or cola) : 
@Q) L-Y~ + ~~ ~~ Dactylic tripody, with spondee in 3d place. 
C2) ht eh oe Second epitrite (trochee and spondee). 
Either of these may be catalectic ; so arise : 
Peel oe Ss as 
7. eee 
These elements are combined in various ways, mostly two or three uniting 
to form a verse. Forms (1) and (2) may shorten the last syllable in caesura, 
even in the middle of a verse. An anacrusis may be prefixed to any verse. 
Sometimes, especially at the end of the strophe, other dactylic and trochaie 
series are employed. The movement is in common (4) time; the trochee 
being o. Py 
2. Logaoedic strophes ; see Hadl. 916. They unite dactyls and trochees 
in the same series (colon). Pure trochaic (or iambic) series may be used 
with the logaoedic. They move in triple (2) time ; the dactyls being cyclic 
= § e spondees irratio ; 
‘eS - - ind the spondees irrational (g gX)- 


3. Dactylo-trochaic strophes consist of dactyls and trochees (or iambi) 
in separate serivs. A dactylic and a trochaic series may, however, unite to 
fourm one verse (Hadl. 909 n. 0. p.). A spondee standing for the last dactyl 
of a series may shorten its final syllable even in the middle of a verse. The 
movement is in triple time, with cyclic dactyls and irrational spondees. 

4. Dactylic verse; H. 908. Common (j) time. 

5. Dochmii; see H. 928. Their rhythm is broken, 2 alternating with 2 ; 


gee | ! | 
Oaeonraw %. 
ko Se Ses ; : 
In the following schemes the foot-ictus is marked with - , the first ietus 
of each series (colon) with '. The sign Le denotes a triseme long syllable 


Cg)» tna tetraseme (7). 


METRES OF THE LYRICAL PARTS. 129 


PARODOS. 
PrROODE (131-138). 
Dactylic, with anapaestic introduction. 


ean Ma Ne) aes Na ah a Meet Need atl SS Set, 


Nees > eer Mig ge 


These four cola form one long verse or 
LC BEA TE eee ee ee | hypermeter. 


ne, a a ae NF) Nt Nt ee Sat St 


wb bet vy Kk ~ _Iambic close; sync. tetrap. hypercat. 
STROPHE AND ANTISTROPHE (148 ~159 = 173-184). 


Logaoedic, with anapaestic introduction. 


' ; ’ _ | Brachycat. tetrapodies (Glyconics) with ana- 
cruses, Only seemingly tripodies. 


ee es oe 253 (oe © 

Seen be -_ Brachycat. tripody with anacr. 
Sg ks, Oh ar Troch, 
By eR ly. Ao Bk ake 

See ae oles, ees 
pa Ree es 

-| oe fe + On the responsion cp, H. 921 a, 
Meeks SESE | te, -. Syncopated trochaic tetrap. 


fe eet wee = 2 On. the next.to the lastisyll. see 4. 916'e; 


130 METRES OF THE LYRICAL PARTS: 


EpopeE (204 - 218). 
Dactylo-trochaic. 
cotlge ES SE a ee eo at 


= ! ——~— : ~~ 
! / ; nes Troch. dipod. w. anacr. + dact. 
nS eats ah eae ene. tetrap. brachycat. 
Bras, al oe are a 
l 
=—-— SS Er Tr T OO wae ow Ee — 
' : 
! ‘ 
K ass ee 


ON ais MON. 0 Re Dact. tetrap. brachycat. 


FIRST STASIMON, 
1st STROPHE AND ANTISTR. (410-420 = 421-431). 


Dactylo-epitritic. 
! F : 
2 ee one ge OB OR 
BS: chia Raa eps ee 
4 
ete Secee Mat SAE Le PS SONS RE CRS 


le Se Se NS Se BOS och: pees cle 


2p STROPHE AND ANTISTR. (432-4388 = 439-445). 


Logaoedic. 
wink 22 24,1 2. Mexipody, syeop. beter thecaes: 
ae : Ss apes atte 
t 
pe ete ee ee Brachycat. tetrap. w. anacrus. 


“ac “ec be ce 


ss tripod. ‘ 


METRES OF THE LYRICAL PARTS. 13E 


SECOND STASIMON. 


Ist STROPHE AND ANTISTROPHE (627-634 = 635-642). 


Dactylo-epitritic. 
bee ote fet ae SESE ea agai gaa Cale ee 
Sees pees ctr 5, ok Ba Ne Rede CS hee 
eho san es on cos zie 
"Aa Na Dae seg NR OR Pe eae a ee ee 
EES Aa ai Raed Cees a ore Troch. trip. as close. 


2p STROPHE AND ANTISTROPHE (643-652 = 653-662). 


Logaoedic. 

es tes | x 

Leet tins Tpser 3 Two cola: pentap. 

: . : + tetrap. axéwy 
wee wr ww eae oe Aa Ta i a a el Ta Te Te and rabéwy by 
Be ALES eee eee _ synizesis, 

Serer nS os ion a a a eo Denia teen 

AL ees oa eae le a 


THIRD STASIMON. 


IsT STROPHE AND ANTISTROPHE (824-834 = 835-845). 


Dactylo-epitritic. 
(ie as _ _— lois te ecient oP — 
‘aa ! 3 . ! : - 
_— ~ —_ — Se ut ee Ee) —_—_— ~~ iw a 
aR eee ees ES Le og ee ta he de fey 
1G ORS, Sy anes —_— a ~ _— —_— 


poe ce Serra eg Glyconic as close. 












fon (Adoni). 


el aah — LS 
! ’ 
é 
egrets hers. as i 
I . cc 5a 
— STS YS Uh fA — 
! . 
— oT eS 
! . 7 e * 
23S re eo a 
a 


FOURTH STASIMON. 
Ast Srror#E AND ANTISTROPHE (976-982 = 


Davey opens 
oe Sites sR ance case taken ngs Fai eters 


. * 
~~ - F- rrr Ter rere Te Ter 


. . 
— — — — STS wa ll he rh 


y g (pie ene ened 
ses agate on cam ge Te Seyieccus eae 


we 

AS 

Ty Pai lg, ges re 
I 

ag 





Sa 
ore 


METRES: OF THE LYRICAL PARTS. 133 


FIFTH STASIMON. 


Ist STROPHE AND ANTISTROPHE (1251-1260 = 1261-1270), 


Dochmii. 
/ : ; . ‘ 
OE A eRe ee Bacchic tripody catal. Hadl. 929 b. 
rf o. 
Se eae, So oS oe Two. dochmim 
/ 
ww — SS —_——lC( ae _ ~~ -- sf aS 
/ ' 6é “c 
i _—_ VS — 
ie shat es as Dochmius and iamb. dipody. 
Z 
ee a SD Wottoehmi: 
/ : 
Be aa ee Dochmius. 
= : 
Dae mal 
Sewers a ar ws sel Te — . ak 
: Six dochmii; belong together as one 
ee Ke Ligh See ag oe long verse. 
) ' "Epwiev with syniz. 
ere etn ee er a 


2p STROPHE AND ANTISTROPHE (1271-1281 = 1282-1292), 


Dochmii, with iambic trimeters. 


Two iamb. trim. 
f = ’ 


we ee Se TS ee aw 


yt a ee 


Two iamb. trim. Tye 
LD Ps We ee ee ae: 2 dochm. + bacchic trip- 
- ody cat, 
U 


Se ee 


134 MEDEA. 


AP PE IDLA 





FRAGMENTS OF NEOPHRON’S MEDEA. 
(See Nauck, Trag. Graec. Fragm., p. 565 fig.) 


1. 
Kal yap Tw’ avtos WAvOov ALow pabety 
cov: IvOiay yap docay, hv éxpnoe pot 
PoiBou Tpopavtts, oupPBadetv dunyave . 
cot 5’ eis Adyous porwy y dv FAmuCov padetv. 


2. 


- n 
elev’ ti Spacers, Ove; BovAevoat Karas 
\ nan > at X % rs 
mp 7) e€auaptety kal Ta mpoodirearata 
€xyOiora OécOa. mot mor’ e&n€as, radas ; 
Katurxe Ana kat cOevos Oeootvyes. 
3 \ , a ‘ \ ae 
Kal mpos Ti tadta Svpopat Wuyxny e€unv 
6p@o Epnpov Kat TapnueAnpevny 
\ “4 > nti) a ‘ ‘ \ 
mpos oy expny jKiota; padGaxot dé 7 
Towadta yryvopecOa Tac XovTEs KAKA ; 
ov pn mpodacers, Oupe, TauTOV ev KaKkols. 
m” , rc > A z , 
oot, SeSoxtars Taides, ExTOS Ouparav 
dmédOer» 75n yap pe cpowvia peyav 
, , , 3 ’ , 
Seduce AVTTa Ovpov. @& YEpEs XEpES, 
mpos otov épyov e€omduCoperba* ev, 
TdAawa TOApNS, 1) TOAVY TOVOY Bpaxet 


- \ > A a ~ 
dcapbepotca TOV ELOY Epyouat XPov@- 


3. 


cal , 
Pbepet réAos yap avTos aicxiot@ pope 
Bpoywtoy ayyorny emcormacas OEepy. 


APPENDIX. 135 


Tola C€ pOlpa TOY Kakoy Epywv pever, 
didakis Brows pupiows enpépors 

~ o ‘s > mt , 
Gedy UrepOe pnror aiperOa Bporors. 





Ld 
FRAGMENTS OF ENNIUS’ MEDEA. 
(Ribbeck, Trag. Lat. Reliq., p. 36 fig.) 


1. (Eurip. v. 1.) 
Utiném ne in nemore Pélio sectribus 
caesé cecidisset dbiegna ad terrém trabes, 
neve fnde navis fncohandae exdrdium 
coepisset, quae nunc néminatur némine 
Argé, qua vecti Arefvi delectf viri 
petébant illam péllem inauratam drietis 
Colchfs, imperio régis Peliae, pér dolum. 
Nam ntimquam era errans méa domo ecferrét pedem 
Medéa, animo aegra, amore saevo saticia. 


.. (v. 49.) 
Antiqua erilis ffda custos cérporis, 
quid sfc te extra aedis €xanimata elfminas? 


3. (v. 57.) 
Cupfdo cepit mfseram nunc me, prdloqui 
caelo dtque terrae Médeai mfserias. 


4. (v. 131.) 


- - -. fluctus vérborum aures aticupant. 


5. (v. 214.) 
Quaé Corinthum arcem 4ltam habetis, mdtronae opulentae, 
éptumates — 
: : : . : 
Milti suam rem béne gessere et ptiblicam patrid procul, 
multi qui domi aétatem agerent, prdpterea sunt fmprobati. 


136 MEDEA. 


6. Cx 250.) 
.... nam tér sub armis malim vitam cérnere, 
quém semel modo parere. 


7. (v. 352.) 
Si té secundo limine hic offéndero, 
moriére. 

8S. (vy. 365.) 


Néquaquam istue fstac ibit: magna inest certatio. 


. e . . ° 


nim ut ego illis sfipplicarem tanta blandiloquéntia — ? 


9. (v. 871.) 
Ille transversa ménte mi hodie trédidit repagula, 
qufbus ego iram omném recludam atque flli perniciém dabo, 
mihi maerores, flli luctum, exftium ill, exiliim mihi. 


10. (v. 502.) 
Quo nine me vortam? qudd iter incipiam fngredi? 
domtiim paternamne anne ad Peliae filias ? 


11. (v. 530.) 
Ti me amoris magis quam honoris sérvavisti gratia. 


12. (v. 764.) 
Sol, qui candentem in caélo sublimés facem. 


13. (v. 1069.) 
gio dw La et ye «SO VOte Opulia COnpOre. 
cétte manus vestrés measque accfpite .... 


14. (v. 1251.) 
Jtippiter tuque ddeo summe S6l, qui omnis res fnspicis, 
quique luminé tuo maria térram caelum céntines, 
fnspice hoc facintis priusquam ffat: prohibessfs scelus. 


15. (See Introd. § 13.) 
Qui fpse sibi sapiéns prodesse n6n quit, nequiquém sapit. 


16. 
[Médea, utinam ne fmquam Colchis ctipido corde pedem éxtulisses.] 


APPENDIX. 137 


In all probability the two following fragments belong here too: — 
Inc. ine. fab. 94 (Eur. v. 476.) 
N6n commemoro quéd draconis saévi sopivi fmpetum, 
nén quod domui vim taurorum et ségetis armataé manus, 
Enn. ine. nom. 25 (Eur. v. 714.) 


Ut tibi Titanis Trivia déderit stirpem Ifberum. 


oe i 
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ae 
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7 


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tos ; Py) 


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